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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2020
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 591
Verlag: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Essen
Zusammenfassung: 
We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted females, and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, while males in selective colleges experience a decline in extraversion and conscientiousness. We find differences in peer quality and rank concerns to be driving our findings.
Schlagwörter: 
College Quality
Peer Effects
Rank Concerns
Regression Discontinuity
India
JEL: 
I23
C9
C14
J24
O15
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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