Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2020 - Latest version: May 10, 2020
Family and social networks are widely believed to influence important life decisions but identifying their causal … effects is notoriously difficult. Using admissions thresholds that directly affect older but not younger siblings' college … options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …