new groups of students arriving on campus encountered a social system centered on exclusive old boys' clubs. We combine … archival and Census records of students' college lives and long-run careers with a room-randomization design based on a scaled … residential integration policy. We first show that high-status students from prestigious private high schools perform worse …

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 …