income for example), many of the pathways through which these outcomes are transmitted are not as well understood. We address … and unique dataset of university students. While large socio-economic differences in academic performance exist at the … differences across socio-economic backgrounds in university grade attainment for female students is explained by intermediating …

and Krueger (2002) that examined the relationship between the college that students attended in 1976 and the earnings they … estimate the return to various measures of college selectivity for a more recent cohort of students: those who entered college … in 1989. We also estimate the return to college selectivity for the 1976 cohort of students, but over a longer time …