| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w9448 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 9448 |
| Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool | |
| Cameron Howell; Sarah E. Turner | |
| 发表日期 | 2003-01-20 |
| 出版年 | 2003 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Selective universities regularly employ policies that favor children of alumni (known as legacies') in undergraduate admissions. Since alumni from selective colleges and universities have, historically, been disproportionately white, admissions policies that favor legacies have disproportionately benefited white students. For this reason, legacy policies lead to additional costs in terms of reductions in racial diversity. As larger numbers of minority students graduate from colleges and universities and have children, however, the potential pool of legacy applicants will change markedly in racial composition. This analysis begins with a review of the history and objectives of the preference for children of alumni in undergraduate admissions. We then consider the specific case of the University of Virginia and employ demographic techniques to predict the racial composition of the pool of potential legacy applicants to the University. Significant changes in the racial composition of classes that graduated from the University of Virginia from the late 1960s through the 1970s foreshadow similar changes in the characteristics of alumni children maturing through the next two decades. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w9448 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/567067 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cameron Howell,Sarah E. Turner. Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool. 2003. |
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| w9448.pdf（694KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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