Exploring Variation in College Counselor Effectiveness

摘要

A college education remains an effective channel through which children born into low-income families can achieve greater economic opportunity. Among those born to parents in the bottom quintile, those who attend college are two and a half times as likely to make it to the top income quintile (Chetty et al. 2017). At the same time, socioeconomic gaps in college completion have widened; while half of people from high-income families obtain a bachelor's degree by age 25, only one in ten people from low-income families do (Bailey and Dynarski 2011).