We develop a model of college assignment as a large contest wherein students with heterogeneous abilities compete for … approximate the outcomes of a game with large, but finite, sets of colleges and students. By incorporating two common families of …

We study the university choice of prospective students using a unique dataset enriched with “lab …-in-the-field” experiments aimed at eliciting risk and time preferences of students. Controlling for assortative mating, we find that father … for decision-makers to attract talented students to tertiary education …

instead shifts students across higher education sectors. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to …

showing a substitution towards veteran students. …

This paper aims at linking cross border mobility of students and graduates with the financing of higher education … costs between students / graduates and tax-payers is studied as well as the (optimal) sharing of the tax-payers ́part …

Abstract The new millennium brought with it a new challenge. Students reaching higher education were not only greater … severely scarce economic resources, but the Ministry of Education designed a plan to keep students in higher education and ….4%), and the average duration of a student’s gap in enrollment decreased 0.2 semesters (impact of 14.4%). …