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marginalrevolution.com - 17 days ago
Why it's harder than before to get into your favorite college
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Caroline Hoxby reports : This paper shows that although the top ten percent of colleges are substantially more selective now than they were 5 decades ago, most colleges are not more selective. Moreover, at least 50 percent of colleges are substantially less selective now than they were then. ...

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EconLog: Library of Economics and Liberty — ... , A small number of colleges have become much more competitive over recent decades, according to Caroline M. Hoxby, an economist at Stanford University. But her study -- published by the National Bureau of Economic Research -- finds that as many as half of colleges have become substantially less competitive over time. Tyler Cowen finds a link to the ...

Nostalgia and Duran Duran
Knowledge Problem — ... There may be fewer big music stars today because of the internet, for the same kinds of reasons that it is getting harder to get admitted into the best colleges.  Today, talent is more willing to travel. But, again for the same kinds of reasons it is getting easier to get admitted to some college somewhere, it is probably getting easier to get into the music business than ever before. ...

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