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NBER @nber.org · 19/08/2026

Using new data on 1.2 million students at 60 coeducational US colleges (1915–1943) to study how colleges shape who marries whom and the next generation's education, from Ran Abramitzky, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price www.nber.org/papers/w35602

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Santiago Pérez @seperez84.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

This advantage persists across generations: 25.6% of the children of same-college couples went on to a selective college, vs 17.2% for classmates who married elsewhere (2.9% for the average child).

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Santiago Pérez @seperez84.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Colleges change *who* you marry. Classmate spouses have 2.3 more years of schooling. And same-college marriages are the most class-homogamous: 48% join two people from the same parental income quintile.

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Santiago Pérez @seperez84.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

6% of men and 9% of women married someone from their own college. Not selection: cohorts with more different-sex peers married within college much more, and pairs of students who overlapped in college more likely to marry each other

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Santiago Pérez @seperez84.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

New paper with Ran Abramitzky and Joe Price. We digitized records for 1.2M students at 60 co-ed U.S. colleges (1915–1943), linked to census records, to study how colleges shape marital matching and the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage.

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@UCDavisEcon @ucdavisecon.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

📣 The UC Davis Economics Department is thrilled to announce our 2025-2026 Economics Job Market Candidates! Learn more about their research below ⬇️

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NBER @nber.org · 16/03/2025

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al www.nber.org/papers/w33558

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Santiago Pérez @seperez84.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

New paper studying the intergenerational mobility of immigrants in 15 destination countries. This paper is the result of an international collaboration of 15 country teams and a total of 38(!) coauthors. Comments welcome!

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Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen @fjaellegaard.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨 How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

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NBER @nber.org · 15/01/2025

During Prohibition when many men lost their jobs, daughters increased their labor supply and delayed marriage and childbearing likely in an effort to compensate for lost wages, from Anna Aizer, Gabrielle Grafton, and Santiago Pérez www.nber.org/papers/w33346

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Kasey Buckles @kaseybuckles.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Love seeing two new @nberpubs.bsky.social WPs out today that use the Census Tree! "Daughters as Safety Net...Evidence from Alcohol Prohibition" by Aizer, Grafton, & Pérez "The Gilded Age & Beyond: The Persistence of Elite Wealth in American History" by Kalsi & @econzach.bsky.social

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/12/2024

academics from poorer backgrounds are: -severely underrepresented -more likely to not publish -have outstanding publication records -introduce more novel scientific concepts, but less likely to receive recognition, as measured by citations, Nobel Prize nominations & awards www.nber.org/papers/w33289

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Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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Santiago Pérez @seperez84.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Had a great time presenting at WFU 🙌

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price
NBER Working Paper No. 33164
November 2024
JEL No. 123, 124, N32
ABSTRACT
We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

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