University rankings in action? The importance of rankings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students?

Arbeitspapier

This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are some quality dimensions of a ranking, e.g. research reputation or mentoring more important than others? I estimate a random utility model using administrative application data of all German medical schools. As identification relies on the variation in quality indicators over time, I can disentangle the response to changes in quality indicators from the common knowledge regarding the overall university attractiveness. Results show that the ranking provides more relevant information in the quality dimensions mentoring, infrastructure and students' satisfaction than with respect to research.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: ZEW Discussion Papers ; No. 11-061

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Education ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Education: Government Policy ; Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions; Probabilities
• Thema: Higher education ; university choice ; college admission ; conditional logit

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Horstschräer, Julia
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
• (wo): Mannheim
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/51356
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ