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A model of student's dilemma

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  • Lipowski, Adam
  • Ferreira, António L.

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Each year perhaps millions of young people face the following dilemma: should I continue my education or rather start working with already acquired skills. Right decision must take into account somebody's own abilities, accessibility to education institutions, competition, and potential benefits. A multi-agent, evolutionary model of this dilemma predicts a transition between stratified and homogeneous phases, evolution that diminishes fitness, fewer applicants per seat for decreased capacity of the university, and presence of poor students at élite universities.

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  • Lipowski, Adam & Ferreira, António L., 2005. "A model of student's dilemma," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 354(C), pages 539-546.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:phsmap:v:354:y:2005:i:c:p:539-546
    DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2005.03.009
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    1. He, Mingfeng & Li, Chuan & Tong, Tong & Ma, Tianliang, 2008. "A model of peasant labor in China," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 387(7), pages 1621-1627.
    2. Dayin Li & Yubiao Wang, 2022. "Online Learning Management for Primary and Secondary Students during the COVID-19 Epidemic: An Evolutionary Game Theory Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-19, September.
    3. Eleftheriou, Konstantinos & Athanasiou, George & Petrakis, Panagiotis, 2009. "Wages and Higher Education Participation," MPRA Paper 19615, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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