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This paper adopts a potential outcome approach to identify and estimate the average treatment effect of attending an elite college on educational and career achievement. A central purpose is to compare the estimates yielded by regression and matching methods of adjusting for the endogeneity of elite college attendance. The analysis follows a high school graduation and college entry cohort across four...