Kiel Policy Brief Nr. 16: Die Autoren Sebastian Braun, Nadja Dwenger und Thomas Oechsle zeigen in ihrem Beitrag, dass es einen eindeutig negativen statistischen Zusammenhang zwischen der durchschnittlichen Abiturnote in einem Bundesland und den...

Matching university places to students is not as clear cut or as straightforward as it ought to be. By investigating the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse for university admissions in medicine and related subjects, we show...

This paper studies the implementation of quotas in matching markets. In a controlled laboratory environment, we compare the performance of two university admissions procedures that both initially reserve a significant fraction of seats at each...

This paper studies how the local environment in receiving counties affected the economic, social, and political integration of the eight million expellees who arrived in West Germany after World War II. We first document that integration outcomes...

Quotas for special groups of students often apply in school or university admission procedures. This paper studies the performance of two mechanisms to implement such quotas in a lab experiment. The first mechanism is a simplified version of the...