| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21926 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 21926 |
| Raising the Bar for College Admission: North Carolina\u2019s Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements | |
| Charles T. Clotfelter; Steven W. Hemelt; Helen Ladd | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-01-25 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We explore the effects of a statewide policy change that increased the number of high school math courses required for admission to any of North Carolina’s 15 public four-year institutions. Using administrative data on cohorts of 8th grade students from 1999 to 2006, we document and exploit variation by district over time in the math course-taking environment encountered by students. Within an instrumental variables setup, we examine effects of the policy change on students grouped into deciles defined by their 8th grade math test scores. First, we find that students took more math courses in high school following the state’s announcement, with relatively larger increases in the middle and bottom deciles of students. Second, we conclude that increased math course-taking in high school led to increases in college enrollment rates that were not uniform across the 15 branch campuses. In particular, we observe the largest increases in the deciles of student achievement from which universities were already drawing the bulk of their enrollees. Finally, for upper-middle decile students, we find limited and noisy evidence that increased math course-taking in high school boosts post-enrollment college performance as measured by a student’s GPA or the likelihood of majoring in a STEM field. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w21926 |
| 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/579601 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Charles T. Clotfelter,Steven W. Hemelt,Helen Ladd. Raising the Bar for College Admission: North Carolina\u2019s Increase in Minimum Math Course Requirements. 2016. |
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| w21926.pdf（639KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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