Cover: Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College?

Does It Pay to Attend an Elite Private College?

Evidence from the Senior High School Class of 1980

Published in: Research in Labor Economics, v. 15, 1996, p. 239-271

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 1996

by Dominic J. Brewer, Ronald G. Ehrenberg

The purpose of this paper is to determine the payoff to attending colleges of different quality, in the context of a structural model of individual college choice--P. 240.

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