Decomposing differences in Black student graduation rates between HBCU and non-HBCU Institutions: The devil is in the details

Mels de Zeeuw, Sameera Fazili and Julie Hotchkiss

Economics Letters, 2021, vol. 202, issue C

Abstract: Six-year graduation rates of Black students at HBCUs are confirmed to match those of Black students at similar non-HBCUs. Digging deeper identifies which mechanisms that translate student and institutional characteristics into graduation rates still differ.

Keywords: HBCU; Decomposition; Propensity-score matching; Inverse-probability weighting; Quantile regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C21 I24 I26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2021.109816

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