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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Conclusion is on page 45.

“Attending Ivy plus over a state flagship substantially increases students’ chance of achieving upper-tail success both in terms of earnings and non-monetary outcomes. The magnitudes of the treatment effects are substantial: we estimate that attending an Ivy-plus college instead of a flagship public increases mean incomes by $101,000…”

People will cite short term post college outcomes (salary after graduation, 5 year, etc)- but not over lifetime when it really pays off. [/quote]

For students evaluating the Ivy plus and state flagships as potential substitutes, you'd probably want to study differences only between students with comparable GPAs and standardized tests, because the talent, not the institution, may be driving the outcomes, and the average talent level at an Ivy plus is likely to be significantly higher than average talent at the state flagship.

Or you can compare performance of Ivy plus and state flagship classmates in graduate school, after those admissions essentially clear the etch-a-sketch.[/quote]

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