Title Information
Title
Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps
Name
Name Part
Joshua Goodman
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Oded Gurantz
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Name
Name Part
Jonathan Smith
Role
Role Term (marcrelator) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut")
author
Subject
Topic
College entrance exam
Subject
Topic
SAT
Subject
Topic
retaking
Subject
Topic
admissions
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Post-secondary education
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Access and admissions
Subject (edworkp)
Topic
Inequality
Origin Information
Date Created
2019
Publisher
Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
Abstract
Only half of SAT-takers retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority (URM) students. We exploit discontinuous jumps in retake probabilities at multiples of 100, driven by left-digit bias, to estimate retaking’s causal effects. Retaking substantially improves SAT scores and increases four-year college enrollment rates, particularly for low income and URM students. Eliminating disparities in retake rates could close up to 10 percent of the income-based gap and up to seven percent of the race-based gap in four-year college enrollment rates of high school graduates.
Language
Language Term: Code (ISO639-2B)
eng
Type of Resource
text
Genre (aat)
grey literature
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Identifier: DOI
10.26300/cnka-ht10
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