This year, the number of applications to our dept ballooned from 300+ to 450+. We are thinking of charging a $10 application fee to induce self-selection. Any views?
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Using Econjobs.com, you can also impose a fee for application that does not go to the school, but to the maintenance of the system. Of course, if every school follows this policy, the applications to the labor market for new Phd would be very expensive, and the matching would probably not be as good as it is now.
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What it could be done is restrict people to apply to only certain number places, if the schools use the same application system. Right now I'm thinking it could work as an extended signaling system. Instead of 2, we would have say...50, possible slots for applications.
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What it could be done is restrict people to apply to only certain number places, if the schools use the same application system. Right now I'm thinking it could work as an extended signaling system. Instead of 2, we would have say...50, possible slots for applications.
That might be a breach of the law, dimwit.
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Why do you think so, it would only be a different allocation mechanism.
Probably these year nobel laureates could come up with better designs.What it could be done is restrict people to apply to only certain number places, if the schools use the same application system. Right now I'm thinking it could work as an extended signaling system. Instead of 2, we would have say...50, possible slots for applications.
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EConJobMarket charges an application fee- this should be the norm. It can be used to fund the system. Problem solved. I love all the economist program that require a rationing mechanism like using the mail rather than using price to ration. I just imagine myself in some crappy Obslast in 1952 waiting in line for bread.
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Charging to apply violates equal opportunity (hurts poor people) instead, use techniques such as hard copies, official transcripts, or *cring* faith and diversity statements
Who cares, we don't want any proles applying. There's an easy solution, at the bottom of the web application, put something in two point font that says the application fee is waived for those that get a form notorized or something. No one's gonna do that to save $10.
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You must be a duMBAss for considering the marginal cost rather than total cost. When I was applying grad schools since I did not have money I did not apply many places that I might had chance. Given that the application process is very random this decreased my chances a lot. For U.S. based people $40-80 application fee might not look a lot but it was very difficult for me. Imagine that my monthly budget was $150 and I had to commute about 3.5 hours with bus everyday to get to school. Now, if you charge $10 for each application that would mean $1000 for 100 applications. This is almost like the base/minimal number of applications. My school did not support for the 5th year after the crisis (only a few people got reduced support). I was not even sure whether I was going to find a job. Then, how can I even find such money (imagine that you need money for fly outs! you graduate and your support is cut! etc.) That would totally lead to an unfair inefficient system. I would have sued those departments if I had any chance.
Charging to apply violates equal opportunity (hurts poor people) instead, use techniques such as hard copies, official transcripts, or *cring* faith and diversity statements
Who cares, we don't want any proles applying. There's an easy solution, at the bottom of the web application, put something in two point font that says the application fee is waived for those that get a form notorized or something. No one's gonna do that to save $10.