1、3200 英文单词， 18500 英文字符 ，中文 5500 字 文献出处： Julia Horstschrer. University Rankings in Action? The Importance of Rankings and an Excellence Competition for University Choice of High-Ability StudentsJ. Economics of Education Review, 2012, 31(6):1162-1176. University rankings in action? The importance of ra
2、nkings and an excellence competition for university choice of high-ability students Julia Horstschrer Abstract This paper analyzes how high-ability students respond to different indicators of university quality when applying for a university. Are prospective students inuenced by quality indicators o
3、f a university ranking or by an excellence status awarded within a nationwide competition? And if so, are some quality dimensions, e.g. research reputation, mentoring, faculty infrastructure, students satisfaction or the excellence status, more important than others? In order to address these questi
4、ons, I estimate a random utility model using administrative application data of all German medical schools. As identication relies on the variation in quality indicators over time, I can disentangle the response to changing quality indicators from the common knowledge regarding university attractive
5、ness. Results show that the ranking provides more relevant information in the quality dimensions mentoring, faculty infrastructure and the overall students satisfaction than with respect to research. Keywords: Higher education; University choice; College admission ;Conditional logit 1. Introduction
6、Every year, secondary school graduates that want to pursue higher education have to choose a university. This is a crucial decision for their future trajectories made under imperfect information regarding their own ability, university quality and the corresponding returns to a degree. From an economists point of view, it is very important that prospective students apply for the universities that t them best in order to maximize human capital production and to minimize drop-outs. There
