This paper is a descriptive analysis of the 2009 Missouri public high school freshman cohort who were tracked though high school and into post-secondary education for six years beyond on-time graduation in Spring 2014. Our focus is post-secondary degree attainment gaps between four student...

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,...