Bifulco, Robert; Fletcher, Jason M.; Ross, Stephen L. - In: American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 3 (2011) 1, pp. 25-53
This paper uses a within-school/across-cohort design to present new evidence of the effects of high school classmate characteristics on a wide range of post-secondary outcomes. We find that increases in the percent of classmates with college-educated mothers decreases the likelihood of dropping...