Race and Ethnic Differences in College Achievement: Does High School Attended Matter?

Jason Fletcher and Marta Tienda
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Marta Tienda: Princeton University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010, vol. 627, issue 1, 144-166

Abstract: Using ten years of enrollment data at four Texas public universities, the authors examine whether, to what extent, and in what ways high school attended contributes to racial and ethnic differences in college achievement. As with previous studies, the authors show that controlling for class rank and test scores shrinks, but does not eliminate, sizable racial differences in college achievement. Fixed-effects models that take into account differences across high schools that minority and nonminority youth attend largely eliminate, and often reverse, black-white and Hispanic-white gaps in several college outcomes. The results, which are quite robust across universities of varying selectivity, illustrate how high school quality foments race and ethnic inequality in college performance.

Keywords: minority students; college achievement; Texas higher education; high school quality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716209348749

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