Dale, Stacy Berg; Krueger, Alan B. - In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (2002) 4, pp. 1491-1527
Estimates of the effect of college selectivity on earnings may be biased because elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to future earnings. We matched students who applied to, and were accepted by, similar colleges to try to eliminate this bias. Using...