Decentralizing university admission: Evidence from a natural experiment
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higher education; college admission problem; university admission;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2012-12-10 (Education)
- NEP-LAB-2012-12-10 (Labour Economics)
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