assigned to grades within schools, many students have siblings who are applying as well, and school districts commonly … guarantee that siblings will attend the same school. This last condition disqualifies the standard approach of considering … grades independently as it may separate siblings. We argue that the central criterion in school choice - elimination of …

In this study, we analyze whether the gender of a student’s siblings affects the choice of college major. A family with … same-gender siblings may encourage academic choices that are less gender stereotyped. We use a unique dataset covering 30 …,000 Italian students who graduated from high school between 1985 and 2005 that allows us to identify siblings. We follow their …