Winners and Losers? The Effect of Gaining and Losing Access to Selective Colleges on Education and Labor Market Outcomest

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Black, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Rothstein, Jesse
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research; Columbia University; Norwegian School of Economics (NHH); Brigham Young University; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20200137
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 26-67
• 关键词: 10 percent law; school choice; admissions; university; QUALITY; enrollment; earnings; POLICY

摘要

We use the introduction of the Texas Top Ten Percent rule to esti-mate the effect of access to a selective college on graduation and earnings outcomes for two groups of students. For highly ranked students at more disadvantaged high schools, who gained access under the policy, college enrollment and graduation increased. Less highly ranked students at more advantaged schools, who tended to lose access, shifted toward less-selective colleges under the pol-icy, but did not see declines in overall college enrollment, gradu-ation, or earnings. The policy thus benefited students targeted for admission without evidence of adverse effects on displaced students. (JEL I21, I23, I24, I26)