| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16663 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16663 |
| Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan | |
| Julie Berry Cullen; Mark C. Long; Randall Reback | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-01-06 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Beginning in 1998, all students in the state of Texas who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school classes were guaranteed admission to any in-state public higher education institution, including the flagships. While the goal of this policy is to improve college access for disadvantaged and minority students, the use of a school-specific standard to determine eligibility could have unintended consequences. Students may increase their chances of being in the top ten percent by choosing a high school with lower-achieving peers. Our analysis of students' school transitions between 8th and 10th grade three years before and after the policy change reveals that this incentive influences enrollment choices in the anticipated direction. Among the subset of students with both motive and opportunity for strategic high school choice, as many as 25 percent enroll in a different high school to improve the chances of being in the top ten percent. Strategic students tend to choose the neighborhood high school in lieu of more competitive magnet schools and, regardless of own race, typically displace minority students from the top ten percent pool. The net effect of strategic behavior is to slightly decrease minority students' representation in the pool. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Public Economics ; Taxation ; Subnational Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Unemployment and Immigration ; Labor Discrimination |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16663 |
| 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/574338 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Julie Berry Cullen,Mark C. Long,Randall Reback. Jockeying for Position: Strategic High School Choice Under Texas' Top Ten Percent Plan. 2011. |
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| w16663.pdf（272KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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