| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21368 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21368 |
| Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application | |
| Sandra E. Black; Kalena E. Cortes; Jane Arnold Lincove | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-07-20 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Access to higher education begins with a student’s decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences in the probability of applying to college, controlling for a student’s college readiness, high school quality, certainty of college admissions, and high school fixed effects. We then investigate racial and ethnic differences in the choice of where to apply. We enhance the typical model of college matching by considering the social setting and high school feeder patterns of state universities. We find that racial and ethnic gaps in application rates, particularly for Hispanic students, are not explained by differential levels of college readiness, high school quality, or information regarding college admission processes. When applying to college, minorities are influenced by more than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21368 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579041 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Sandra E. Black,Kalena E. Cortes,Jane Arnold Lincove. Apply Yourself: Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application. 2015. |
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