Specialists or All-Rounders: How Best to Select University Students?
研究了大学应基于专业测试还是更广泛技能选拔学生，理论上证明即使广泛技能不改善劳动力市场结果，大学仍会将其作为选拔标准，实证发现选拔政策较不专业的大学录取的学生最终GPA更高。
I study whether universities should select their students on the basis of only specialized subject-specific tests or a broader set of skills and knowledge.Theoretically, I show that even if broader skills do not improve the outcomes of graduates in the labor market, a university optimally chooses to use them as a criterion for selection alongside the mastery of more subject-specific tools.Empirically, I exploit the variation between subject-specific and nonspecific entrance exam sets on a large administrative dataset of Portuguese students.My central finding is that universities with less specialized admission policies admit a pool of students who obtain a higher final GPA.