Cognitive, socioemotional, and behavioural returns to college quality

Utteeyo Dasgupta, Subha Mani, Smriti Sharma and Saurabh Singhal

No wp-2017-94, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: We exploit the variation in the admissions process across colleges of a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment using scores on standardized university exams; behavioural preferences such as risk, competitiveness, and overconfidence; and socioemotional traits using measures of Big Five personality. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college leads to improvements in females' exam scores with no effect on males' scores.

Keywords: Cognitive attainment; Behaviour; Personality; College quality; Peer effect; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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