Can you leave high school behind?

Autor/inn/en	Black, Sandra E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold; Cullinane, Jenna; Veron, Rachel
Titel	Can you leave high school behind?
Quelle	München: CESifo (2014), 39 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CESifo working paper. 4637. Economics of Education
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Bildungsniveau; Bildungsertrag; College; Weiterführende Schule; High School; Soziale Schicht; Dienstleistung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulzulassung; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Qualität; Student; USA
Abstract	In recent years, many states, including California, Texas, and Oregon, have changed admissions policies to increase access to public universities for students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds. A key concern, however, is how these students will perform. This paper examines the relationship between high school quality and student success at college. Using newly available administrative data from the University of Texas at Austin, we take advantage of the unique policy environment provided by Texas's Top Ten Percent automatic admissions law, which has not only increased the diversity of high schools in the state that send students to the university, but also provides an admission criteria based on a sole observable characteristic: high school class rank. We find that high school characteristics do affect student performance, and these effects seem more pronounced for women and low-income students. In addition, there is little evidence that the effects of high school characteristics decay over time.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2014/3