Choosing colleges: Identifying and modeling choice sets

Social Science Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 416-433

  Niu, Sunny Xinchun ^a   Tienda, Marta ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Choice sets; College choice; Random utility model; Texas top 10 law

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049113937     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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