Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri
Peter Arcidiacono and
Cory Koedel
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, vol. 6, issue 3, 20-57
Abstract:
Conditional on enrollment, African American students are substantially less likely to graduate from four-year public universities than white students. Using administrative micro-data from Missouri, we decompose the graduation gap into racial differences in four factors: (i) how students sort to universities, (ii) how students sort to initial majors, (iii) high-school quality, and (iv) other preentry skills. Preentry skills explain 65 and 86 percent of the gap for women and men respectively. A small role is found for differential sorting into college, driven by African Americans' disproportionate representation in urban schools and schools at the very bottom of the quality distribution.
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Date: 2014
Note: DOI: 10.1257/app.6.3.20
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