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The college experience involves much more than credit hours and degrees. Students likely derive utility from in … come by. Leveraging the COVID-19 shock, we elicit students' intended likelihood of enrolling in higher education under … socioeconomic groups. Our analysis shows that economically-disadvantaged students derive substantially lower value from university …
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We examine friendships and study partnerships among university students over several years. At the aggregate level …
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Building on standard marital matching models, we show that a variety of underlying social preferences about a given trait all generate positive assortative matching on that trait, and hence the same distribution of spousal trait differences in equilibrium. Applying this result to U.S. Census and...
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experiment embedded in a survey of female university students at a large public university in Saudi Arabia. We randomly provided … find that expectations of working among those in the Control group are quite high, yet students underestimate the expected …
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observed patterns of interaction. We find that, while much sorting exists at all stages of college, black and white students … friends as randomly assigned roommates of the same race. Further, we find that, in the long-run, white students who are … randomly assigned black roommates have a significantly larger proportion of black friends than white students who are randomly …
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assigned to peer groups of about 30 students with whom they are required to spend the majority of their time interacting. This …
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We develop a Roy model of social interactions in which individuals sort into peer groups based on comparative advantage. Two key results emerge: First, when comparative advantage is the guiding principle of peer group organization, the effect of moving a student into an environment with...
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Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting dissenters' causes can increase the public expression of dissent by providing a "social cover" for voicing...
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This paper combines personnel records of the U.S. federal government with census data to study how shocks to the gender composition of a large organization can persistently shift gender norms. Exploiting city-by-department variation in the sudden expansion of female clerical employment driven by...
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This paper explores how historical gender roles become entrenched as norms over the long run. In the historical United States, gender roles on the frontier looked starkly different from those in settled areas. Male-biased sex ratios led to higher marriage rates for women and lower for men. Land...
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