College Achievement and Attainment Gaps: Evidence from West Point Cadets. Working Paper 27162

Autor/inn/en	Cestau, Dario; Epple, Dennis; Romano, Richard; Sieg, Holger; Wojtaszek, Carl
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	College Achievement and Attainment Gaps: Evidence from West Point Cadets. Working Paper 27162
Quelle	(2020) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Racial Differences; African American Students; White Students; Graduation Rate; Military Schools; Higher Education; Program Effectiveness; Academic Achievement; Achievement Gap; Persistence; Armed Forces; Promotion (Occupational); Hispanic American Students; Gender Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rassenunterschied; African Americans; Student; Students; Afroamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Militärschule; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulleistung; Ausdauer; Military; Militär; Aufstiegsberuf; Berufsförderung; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Hispanoamerikaner; Geschlechterkonflikt
Abstract	Assessing the effectiveness of education by race and gender is as difficult as it is important. We investigate this question utilizing data for eleven cohorts at West Point, a distinguished military academy and highly ranked liberal arts college. Employing matching using entry scores on three comprehensive measures, we obtain exceptional matches of score distributions for black and matched white students. We find black students have lower graduating achievement scores than matched white students, but comparable rates of graduation, retention in the Army after graduation, and early promotion. Hispanic-white comparisons reveal no differences. Female-male comparisons reveal women have lower attainment and retention rates. (As Provided).
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