O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollment

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dc.contributor.authorGoodman, Joshuaen
dc.contributor.authorHurwitz, Michaelen
dc.contributor.authorMulhern, Christineen
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Jonathanen
dc.date.accessed2020-01-21en
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-17T19:28:48Zen
dc.date.available2020-04-17T19:28:48Zen
dc.date.issued2019-12-01en
dc.description.abstractThe authors study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers. Because siblings’ test scores are weakly correlated, they 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAnnenberg Institute at Brown Universityen
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dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://www.edworkingpapers.com/sites/default/files/ai19-165.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/97811en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAnnenberg Institute at Brown Universityen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEdWorkingPaper; 19-165en
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/en
dc.subjectcollege enrollmenten
dc.subjectcollege experienceen
dc.subjectcollege students--social networksen
dc.titleO Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College Enrollmenten
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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