sensible beliefs about the outcomes. Students believe that their parents are more likely to approve majors associated with high …At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper … investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are …

sensible beliefs about the outcomes. Students believe that their parents are more likely to approve majors associated with high …At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper … investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors? In other words, whether the majors chosen are …

trajectories for parents and children in Chile with a regression discontinuity design to describe the intergenerational evolution … rank, with higher intercepts and flatter slopes for children whose parents attend a set of high-status, high … capital. Children of parents just above the threshold for admission to elite degree programs score no better on college …

Do elite colleges help talented students join the social elite, or help incumbent elites retain their positions? We … children's social environment. Children become more likely to attend high-status private schools and colleges, and to live near …

, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …

college attendance by household income or parents' education persist but decline by 20-30 percent. Notably, the effect of … among lower-income and non-college households. We also elicit respondents' intended likelihood of their pre-college age …