Who Takes Advanced Placement (AP)&quest

Benjamin P Scafidi (), Christopher Clark and John Swinton ()
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Benjamin P Scafidi: Kennesaw State University, Coles College of Business, 560 Parliament Garden Way NW, Kennesaw, GA, USA.
Christopher Clark: Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA, USA. E-mails: christopher.clark@gcsu.edu; john.swinton@gcsu.edu

Eastern Economic Journal, 2015, vol. 41, issue 3, 346-369

Abstract: This paper provides an analysis of who takes Advanced Placement (AP) Economics. We find large differences in enrollment in AP Economics across groups. Specifically, African-American and Hispanic students and students from low-income backgrounds are about half as likely to be enrolled in AP Economics as other students. However, once we control for prior academic achievement in Geometry, African-American and Hispanic students are overrepresented relative to whites and the difference between low-income and other students is reduced significantly. Female students are overrepresented relative to males, and Asian students are overrepresented relative to whites — this latter effect is large.

Date: 2015
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