Effects of Peers and Rank on Cognition, Preferences, and Personality
利用印度顶尖大学录取分数线的断点，研究进入精英大学对认知成绩、经济偏好和人格特质的影响，发现对男女生的影响不同，且由同伴质量和排名关注驱动。
Abstract We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that enrolling in a selective college improves university exam scores of the marginally admitted women and makes them less overconfident and less risk averse, while men in selective colleges experience a decline in extraversion and conscientiousness. We find differences in peer quality and rank concerns to be driving our findings.