Samuel J. Imlay

Feb 23, 2024 | iza.org | D’Wayne Bell |John Holbein |Jonathan Smith |Samuel J. Imlay

We study how colleges shape their students' voting habits by linking millions of SAT takers to their college-enrollment and voting histories. To begin, we show that the fraction of students from a particular college who vote varies systematically by the college's attributes (e.g. increasing with selectivity) but also that seemingly similar colleges can have markedly different voting rates.