The effects of high school math curriculum on college attendance: Evidence from the NLSY97

Alison Aughinbaugh

Economics of Education Review, 2012, vol. 31, issue 6, 861-870

Abstract: Using a sample of youth who graduated from high school in the late 1990s and early 2000s, this paper examines the impact of high school math curriculum on the decision to go to college. Results that control for unobserved differences between students and their families suggest that a more rigorous high school math curriculum is associated with a higher probability of attending college and of attending a 4-year college. The household fixed effect results imply that students who take an advanced academic math curriculum in high school (algebra II or precalculus, trigonometry, or calculus) are about 17 percentage points more likely to go to college and 20 percentage points more likely to start college at a 4-year school by age 21 compared to those students whose highest math class was algebra I or geometry.

Keywords: Economics of education; Mathematics; College (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.06.004

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