Race and College Success: Evidence from Missouri

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Arcidiacono, Peter; Koedel, Cory
• 署名单位: Duke University; University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.6.3.20
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 20-57
• 关键词: AFFIRMATIVE-ACTION; black; achievement; completion; admissions; education; QUALITY

摘要

Conditional on enrollment, African American students are substantially less likely to graduate from four-year public universities than white students. Using administrative micro-data from Missouri, we decompose the graduation gap into racial differences in four factors: (i) how students sort to universities, (ii) how students sort to initial majors, (iii) high-school quality, and (iv) other preentry skills. Preentry skills explain 65 and 86 percent of the gap for women and men respectively. A small role is found for differential sorting into college, driven by African Americans' disproportionate representation in urban schools and schools at the very bottom of the quality distribution.