| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w26502 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 26502 |
| O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment | |
| Joshua Goodman; Michael Hurwitz; Christine Mulhern; Jonathan Smith | |
| 发表日期 | 2019-12-02 |
| 出版年 | 2019 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Because siblings’ test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings’ college options. Older siblings’ admissibility substantially increases their own four-year college enrollment rate and quality of college attended. Their improved college choices in turn raise younger siblings’ college enrollment rate and quality of college chosen, particularly for families with low predicted probabilities of college enrollment. Some younger siblings follow their older sibling to the same campus but many upgrade by choosing other colleges. The observed spillovers are not well-explained by price, income, proximity or legacy effects, but are most consistent with older siblings transmitting otherwise unavailable information about the college experience and its potential returns. The importance of such personally salient information may partly explain persistent differences in college-going rates by income, geography and other characteristics that define a community. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w26502 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/584175 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua Goodman,Michael Hurwitz,Christine Mulhern,et al. O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment. 2019. |
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