A REVEALED PREFERENCE RANKING OF US COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Avery, Christopher N.; Glickman, Mark E.; Hoxby, Caroline M.; Metrick, Andrew
• 署名单位: Boston University; Stanford University
• 刊物名称: QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-5533
• DOI: 10.1093/qje/qjs043
• 发表日期: 2013
• 页码: 425-467
• 关键词: PAIRED-COMPARISON MODELS

摘要

We present a method of ranking U.S. undergraduate programs based on students' revealed preferences. When a student chooses a college among those that have admitted him, that college wins his tournament. Our method efficiently integrates the information from thousands of such tournaments. We implement the method using data from a national sample of high-achieving students. We demonstrate that this ranking method has strong theoretical properties, eliminating incentives for colleges to adopt strategic, inefficient admissions policies to improve their rankings. We also show empirically that our ranking is (1) not vulnerable to strategic manipulation; (2) similar regardless of whether we control for variables, such as net cost, that vary among a college's admits; (3) similar regardless of whether we account for students selecting where to apply, including Early Decision. We exemplify multiple rankings for different types of students who have preferences that vary systematically.