In Wheelan's Naked Economics, and according the the chapter on "Economics of Information," which of the below statements correctly captures why students pay thousands of dollars to get into highly selective universities such as Harvard? Group of answer choices   Students who graduate from Harvard University are significantly brighter and better educated than those who do not.   Students engage in irrational behavior when they spend thousands of dollars on tuition and college expenses to study at highly selective universities such as Harvard.   There is little value to spending huge amounts of money to study at a highly selective university such as Harvard, because the university from which a student graduates has little (if any) impact upon the student's job or income prospects.

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In Wheelan's Naked Economics, and according the the chapter on "Economics of Information," which of the below statements correctly captures why students pay thousands of dollars to get into highly selective universities such as Harvard?

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Students who graduate from Harvard University are significantly brighter and better educated than those who do not.

 

Students engage in irrational behavior when they spend thousands of dollars on tuition and college expenses to study at highly selective universities such as Harvard.

 

There is little value to spending huge amounts of money to study at a highly selective university such as Harvard, because the university from which a student graduates has little (if any) impact upon the student's job or income prospects.

 

The choice of university signals information. Employers assume in general that the selectivity of universities ensures quality of education, and therefore graduates of Harvard and other selective universities receive higher salary offers as compared to the graduates from less selective universities.

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