Isolating Peer Effects in the Returns to College Selectivity
This paper asks how a student¿s classmates affect her returns to college. We exploit a ¿tracking¿ admission system at a selective Colombian university that led to large differences in mean classmate ability for students in the same programs. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that student...
- Autores:
-
de Roux, Nicolás
Riehl, Evan
- Tipo de recurso:
- Work document
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2019
- Institución:
- Universidad de los Andes
- Repositorio:
- Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
- Idioma:
- spa
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/41098
- Acceso en línea:
- http://hdl.handle.net/1992/41098
- Palabra clave:
- College selectivity
Peer effects
Returns to education
I23, I26, J24
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
| Summary: | This paper asks how a student¿s classmates affect her returns to college. We exploit a ¿tracking¿ admission system at a selective Colombian university that led to large differences in mean classmate ability for students in the same programs. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that students in higher-ability classes were more likely to fail courses and drop out, and had lower earnings one decade later. Testable predictions from a human capital model with peer externalities show that individuals learned less in more able classrooms. Our findings suggest that exposure to higher-ability college peers can harm an individual¿s career trajectory. |
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