TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Dasgupta, Utteeyo
AU  - Mani, Subha
AU  - Sharma, Smriti
AU  - Singhal, Saurabh
        TI  - Cognitive, Socioemotional and Behavioral Returns to College Quality
        PY  - 2017/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10701
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10701
        AB  - We exploit the variation in the admissions cutoffs across colleges of a leading Indian university in a regression discontinuity framework to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on: cognitive attainment, behavioral preferences, and Big Five personality. We find that enrolling in a selective college improves only females' exam scores. Further, marginally admitted females in selective colleges become less overconfident and less risk averse while males in selective colleges experience a decline in extraversion and conscientiousness. Higher attendance rates among females explain the gender differences in returns to better college and peer environment. 
        KW  - cognitive attainment
KW  - behavior
KW  - personality
KW  - college quality
KW  - peer effects
KW  - India
        ER  -