The Effect of Access to College Assessments on Enrollment and Attainment

Bulman, George

doi:10.1257/app.20140062

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“…10 Interestingly, Card and Krueger (2005) find no effect of eliminating affirmative action on the portfolios of minority academic aptitude matters but plays an incomplete role in shaping college choice is consistent with results in the literature that college choices are sensitive to non-academic factors such as the availability of college counseling services (Avery and Kane 2004;Carrell and Sacerdote, 2012), information about the cost of college (Bettinger et al, 2012;Hoxby and Turner, 2014), and ease of access to entrance exams (Klasik, 2013;Hurwitz et al, 2014;Goodman, 2014;Bulman, 2015), as well as evidence of mismatch between students and colleges (Hoxby and Avery, 2012;Smith, Pender, and Howell, 2013;Dillon and Smith, 2016).…”

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Updated Expectations and College Application Portfolios

Bond¹,

Bulman

Li³

et al. 2016

SSRN Journal

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Economists have a limited understanding of how sensitive human capital investment is to information about aptitude or likelihood of success. We shed light on this by estimating if students update their college choices in response to large positive and negative information shocks generated by the release of SAT scores. Using new data on when students select colleges to receive their scores, we find that positive shocks cause students to choose more selective colleges that charge higher tuition and have higher graduation rates. Updating is significant for students from high and low income households and for minority and non-minority students.

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Updated Expectations and College Application Portfolios

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Li³

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SSRN Journal

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“…For example, in the contemporary US context, there is compelling evidence to suggest that college outcomes are affected by whether or not students have access to Advanced Placement (AP) courses (Klopfenstein, 2004;Jackson, 2010) and SAT-taking opportunities (Bulman, 2013;Goodman, 2012) in high school. If non-elite school students in district A can take a wide range of AP courses and must sit the SAT by default, while non-elite school students in district B can take only a few AP courses and must travel to another high school to sit the SAT, we might expect elite school attendance to have a smaller impact in district A than district B.…”

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“…Third, from a policy perspective, it follows that policy-makers would be advised to keep in mind the importance of related institutions when proposing changes to school resources and organization. For example, in the contemporary US context, it seems plausible to suppose that elite school effects would be shaped by whether non-elite school students had ready access to Advanced Placement courses (Klopfenstein, 2004) and SAT-taking opportunities (Bulman, 2013;Goodman, 2012).…”

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The Long-Run Effects of Attending an Elite School: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Clark

Bono

2016

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

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This paper estimates the impact of elite school attendance on longrun outcomes including completed education, income and fertility. Our data consists of individuals born in the 1950s and educated in a UK district that assigned students to either elite or non-elite secondary schools. Using instrumental variables methods that exploit the school assignment formula, we find that elite school attendance had large impacts on completed education. Surprisingly, there are no significant effects on most labor market outcomes except for an increase in female income. By contrast, we document a large and significant negative impact on female fertility. JEL Classification: I2, J24, C31, C36

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“…5 And Bulman (2015) finds that increased availability of the SAT (or mandatory SAT taking) increases college-going.…”

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