Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160101350

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160101350

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Tertiary admissions: towards a healthier university system. The project aims to identify the demand for university places, quantify the gains from the Australian semi-centralised admissions system and propose measures to increase these gains. The effectiveness of any tertiary education system depends critically on the quality of the match between students and courses, with mismatches resulting in millions of dollars of wasted public resources and life dissatisfaction of graduates in occupations misaligned with their interests. Using an Australian tertiary admissions dataset containing both student preferences and rankings of students by courses, the project aims to empirically assess the trade-off between the efficiency of a match, an equitable welfare distribution and equal access to higher education. It then plans to propose the best system to balance these objectives.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2019

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $199,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Microeconomic Theory | Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods | Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Market-Based Mechanisms | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Industry Economics and Industrial Organisation | Market-Based Mechanisms | Microeconomic Theory | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Public Economics- Publically Provided Goods

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