For decades, college has been seen by many in the US as the ticket to upward mobility. But it’s hard to separate the value added by college from the outcomes students would have experienced without it. So how can we tell what the returns on investment in higher education really are? Chicago Booth’s Jack Mountjoy took advantage of a quirk in some colleges’ admissions practices to investigate that question.

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