 The Negative Effects of Privilege on Educational Attainment: Gender, Race, Class, and the Bachelor's DegreeWilliam Mangino Social Science Quarterly, 2014, vol. 95, issue 3, 760-784 Abstract: type="main"> To show that in the contemporary United States, traditionally privileged categories of people—men, whites, and the super-rich—complete four-year college degrees at rates lower than their nonprivileged counterparts—women, nonwhites, and the “99 percent.” Logistic regression and an educational transitions method are used on the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Waves 1 and 4) to predict, given college entrance, who completes a bachelor's degree. Women, the lower 99 percent of the income distribution, and when economic resources are present, nonwhites all complete college at higher rates than men, the richest 1 percent, and whites, respectively. In a final model, rich white men as a single category are shown to complete college less than everyone else. As previously excluded categories of people have gained access to higher education, the privileged are shifting their reproduction strategies away from schooling. Date: 2014 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:socsci:v:95:y:2014:i:3:p:760-784 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Social Science Quarterly is currently edited by Robert L. Lineberry More articles in Social Science Quarterly from Southwestern Social Science Association |
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