Where Do the Children Of Professors Attend College?

John J. Siegfried () and Malcolm Getz

No 302, Working Papers from Department of Economics, Vanderbilt University

Abstract: To ask whether the best-informed consumers of higher education, the faculty, make different choices than other similarly endowed consumers, we compare the pattern of colleges chosen by 5,592 children of college and university faculty with the pattern chosen by the children of non-faculty families of similar socio-economic status. The patterns are remarkably different. The children of faculty are more likely to choose research universities and even more likely to choose selective liberal arts colleges. This evidence is consistent with the view that the level of information makes a difference in the choice of college.

Keywords: Higher education; college choice; admission; faculty; information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2003-02
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