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Title: From Bakke to Hopwood: Does Race Affect Attendance and Completion?
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Light, Audrey L. Strayer, Wayne Earle |
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From Bakke to Hopwood: Does Race Affect Attendance and Completion? Review of Economics and Statistics 84,1 (February 2002): 34-44. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3211737 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Harvard University Press Keyword(s): Affirmative Action; College Dropouts; College Education; College Enrollment; College Graduates; Educational Attainment; Minorities Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. In light of recent, state-level actions banning racial preference in college admissions decisions, we investigate how whites and minorities differ in their college-going behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate a sequential model of college attendance and graduation decisions that allows correlations among the errors. Our estimates reveal that minorities are more likely than observationally equivalent whites to attend colleges of all quality levels. Being a minority has a positive effect on graduation probabilities, but, overall, minorities are less likely than their white counterparts to complete college because they possess fewer favorable unobserved factors. |
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Light, Audrey L. and Wayne Earle Strayer. "From Bakke to Hopwood: Does Race Affect Attendance and Completion?" Review of Economics and Statistics 84,1 (February 2002): 34-44.
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