Anchoring effects in world university rankings: exploring biases in reputation scores

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Performance Funding in Higher Education: Do Financial Incentives Impact College Completions? (2014, background): “…our fixed effects because it is relatively stable over time since the marketplace of public higher education is highly stratified and hierarchical (Bowman & Bastedo, 2011; Winston, 1999; 2004). secondly, our counterfactual design assumes that pAsshe institutions would have the same completion…”
Access Without Equity (2012, background): “…to preserve conventional academic achievement as their primary admissions consideration is powerful, without a doubt, for contemporary institutional stratification relies on ranking systems constructed from academic selectivity statistics (Bowman & Bastedo, 2011; Espeland & Sauder, 2007).”
Running in Place: Low-Income Students and the Dynamics of Higher Education Stratification (2011, background): “Published college rankings also have a significant impact on future peer assessments, independent of any real changes in organizational quality and performance and controlling for prior peer assessments of reputation (Bastedo & Bowman, 2010; Bowman & Bastedo, 2011).”