Abstract
We model how student choices to rush a fraternity, and fraternity admission choices, interact with signals firms receive about student productivities to determine labor-market outcomes. The fraternity and students value wages and fraternity socializing values. We provide sufficient conditions under which, in equilibrium, most members have intermediate abilities: weak students apply, but are rejected unless they have high socializing values, while most able students do not apply to avoid taint from association with weaker members.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 116-141 |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Journal | American Economic Journal: Microeconomics |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 2012 |
Keywords
- self-selection
- screening
- fraternities
- statistical discrimination
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
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