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Download full textAndrés Barrios-Fernández; Christopher Neilson; Seth Zimmerman – Centre for Economic Performance, 2024
Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We combine intergenerationally-linked data from Chile with a regression discontinuity design to show that, looking across generations, elite colleges do both. Lower-status individuals who gain admission to elite college programs…
Descriptors: Human Capital, Social Capital, Universities, Selective Admission
