higher. Every 10-point increase in SAT
score causes retention to fall by three
percentage points. “Students who attend
what they considered to be their first-
choice school were less likely to persist
in a biomedical or behavioral science
major,” they write. You think you want
to go to the fanciest school you can. You
don’t.
5 A small point of clarification:
Conley and Önder’s chart isn’t a list of
the total number of publications by each
economist. Rather, it is a weighted
number—getting a paper accepted by
one of the most prestigious journals (The
American Economic Review or
Econometrica) counts more than getting
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