We study how geographic access to public postsecondary institutions is associated with students' college enrollment … in students' local college options, with White, Hispanic, and rural students having, on average, many fewer nearby … options than their Black, Asian, suburban, and urban peers. We then show that students are sensitive to the distance they must …

We study within-family spillovers in college enrollment to show college-going behavior is transmissible between peers …. Because siblings' test scores are weakly correlated, we exploit college-specific admissions thresholds that directly affect … older but not younger siblings' college options. Older siblings' admissibility substantially increases their own four …

individuals who are "first in family" (FiF), those who achieve a university degree, but whose (step) parents did not. We provide … likely to study other Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities than students whose parents are university graduates. We also find … evidence that FiF students are less likely to graduate from elite universities and have a higher probability of dropping out …

Universities use 'first in family' or 'first generation' as an indicator to increase the diversity of their student … predictive power of university participation and graduation. We find that being first in family is an important barrier to … the channel of early educational attainment. Our findings indicate that the first in family indicator could be key in …

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …