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Alan Krueger, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the author of Inequality in America: What Role for Human Capital Policies? (MIT Press, 2005) discusses the value of going to an “elite” college with Gregg Easterbrook, senior editor at The New Republic, fellow at The Brookings Institution believes that you can get a good education at a non-Ivy-League college.

Alan Krueger is the co-author of an NBER working paper entitled “Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables” and a series of Economics Scene columns for The New York Times, including one on this topic. Gregg Easterbrook surveyed the literature on this subject in an 2004 Atlantic Monthly article.