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Direct linkOckert, Bjorn – Economics of Education Review, 2010
This paper exploits discontinuities and randomness in the college admissions in Sweden in 1982, to estimate the economic return to college in the 1990s. At the time, college admissions were highly selective and applicants were ranked with respect to their formal merits. Admissions were given to those ranked higher than some threshold value. At the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Admission, Economics, Selective Admission
