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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21577
来源ID	Working Paper 21577
	Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Jim Crow: Evidence from North Carolina
	Charles T. Clotfelter; Helen F. Ladd; Jacob L. Vigdor
发表日期	2015-09-21
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	College attendance and completion in the U.S. are strongly correlated with race and socioeconomic background. Do public postsecondary institutions themselves exacerbate pre-college disparities, or reduce them? We address this question using longitudinal data linking the records of students at North Carolina’s public four-year universities to their public K-12 records. As a result of an institutional structure forged during the period of Jim Crow segregation, black students who attend the state’s public university system are likely to experience markedly more racial isolation in college than they did in middle school. Another, more positive consequence of this structure is to boost in-state public four-year college enrollment and graduation by African-American students relative to white students with similar backgrounds. Conditional on enrolling in one of the state’s public universities, however, black students lag behind whites in grades and graduation rates. Regarding socioeconomic background, we find that lower-status youth are less likely to enter the system and less likely to succeed once they enter than those with higher status. The socioeconomic gap in graduation rates among matriculants has, however, declined in recent years.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21577
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579252
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Charles T. Clotfelter,Helen F. Ladd,Jacob L. Vigdor. Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Jim Crow: Evidence from North Carolina. 2015.