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arxiv: cond-mat/0410594 · v2 · submitted 2004-10-22 · ❄️ cond-mat.other · cond-mat.stat-mech· cs.MA· physics.soc-ph

A model of student's dilemma

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Each year perhaps millions of young people face the following dilemma: should I continue my education or rather start working with already acquired skills. Right decision must take into account somebody's own abilities, accessibility to education institutions, competition, and potential benefits. A multi-agent, evolutionary model of this dilemma predicts a transition between stratified and homogeneous phases, evolution that diminishes fitness, fewer applicants per seat for decreased capacity of the university, and presence of poor students at \'elite universities.

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