The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes

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Reputation and School Competition (2015, background): “…college market (due to, for example, lower transport costs) led to sorting as the top schools became more selective and the bottom ones less so.17 MacLeod et al. (2015) show that in the past 15 years Colombia has experienced qualitatively similar trends: rising selectivity at top colleges and…”
Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? (2020, background): “…to theoretical and empirical research on the implications of school choice for sorting and stratification (Epple and Romano, 1998; Epple et al., 2004; Hsieh and Urquiola, 2006; Barseghyan et al., 2014; Altonji et al., 2015; Avery and Pathak, 2015; MacLeod and Urquiola, 2015; MacLeod et al., 2017).”
Race and Stratification in College Enrollment Over Time (2018, background): “Selectivity, across the full distribution of schools, is also related to initial earnings and earnings growth (MacLeod, Riehl, Saavedra, & Urquiola, 2015; Scott-Clayton, 2016) and even provides a premium to already-lucrative majors, like business and the sciences (Eide, Hilmer, & Showalter, 2016).”