High School Course Access and Postsecondary STEM Enrollment and Attainment

Rajeev Darolia, Cory Koedel, Joyce Main, Felix Ndashimye and Junpeng Yan

No 2004, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: We study the effects of access to high school math and science courses on postsecondary STEM enrollment and degree attainment using administrative data from Missouri. Our data include over 140,000 students from 14 cohorts entering the 4-year public university system. The effects of high school course access are identified by exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in course offerings within high schools over time. We find that differential access to high school courses does not affect postsecondary STEM enrollment or degree attainment. Our null results are estimated precisely enough to rule out moderate impacts.

Keywords: STEM, College sorting; High school curricula (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 71 pages
Date: 2020-10
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