Quality Matters: Assessing the Impact of Attending More Selective Institutions on College Completion Rates of Minorities
Quality Matters: Assessing the Impact of Attending More Selective Institutions on College Completion Rates of Minorities
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质量很重要：评估就读更多选择性院校对少数族裔大学毕业率的影响
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2008
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Tatiana Melguizo
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作者：
Tatiana Melguizo
本文探讨了就读不同类别的选择性院校对学生大学毕业的影响。具体来说，它探讨了不同种族和民族对机构的选择性影响的差异。该分析考虑了个人和机构特征的影响，并用学生动机的代理修正了遗漏的变量。结果表明，与非选择性院校相比，就读于最具选择性院校和高度选择性院校的学生更有可能完成学士学位。这一结果适用于非裔美国人和西班牙裔学生。在纠正了将学生分类到特定类型院校的问题后，模型的结果表明，选择性院校的系数可能存在较小的向上偏差。选择性院校对学业成绩的积极影响表明，它们有可能提高少数族裔的毕业率，同时缩小持续存在的大学毕业差距。
This paper examines the impact of attending different categories of selective institutions on students’ college completion. Specifically, it explores differences in the impact that selectivity of an institution has by race and ethnicity. The analysis accounts for the impact of individual and institutional characteristics and corrects for omitted variables with proxies for student motivation. The results suggest that students who attend the most selective institutions and highly selective institutions, as opposed to non-selective ones, are more likely to complete a bachelor’s degree. This result holds for African American and Hispanic students. After correcting for the problem of sorting of students into specific types of institutions, the results of the models suggest that the coefficient of selective institutions might have a small upward bias. The positive effect of selective institutions on attainment suggests that they have the potential to increase the graduation rates of minorities while narrowing the persistent college completion gap.