The Effect of Access to College Assessments on Enrollment and Attainment

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bulman, George
• 署名单位: University of California System; University of California Santa Cruz
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20140062
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 1-36
• 关键词: financial-aid; affirmative-action; returns; assistance; education; california; decisions; ability; demand

摘要

This paper examines if students' college outcomes are sensitive to access to college admissions tests. I construct a dataset of every test center location and district policy in the United States linked to the universe of individual testing records and a large sample of college enrollment records. I find evidence that SAT taking is responsive to the opening or closing of a testing center at a student's own or a neighboring high school and to policies that provide free in-school administration and default registration. Newly induced takers of high academic aptitude appear likely to attend and graduate from college.