Learning from the Test
Raising Selective College Enrollment by Providing Information
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19316747 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarena Goodman (Federal Reserve, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 98 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 671-684 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Review of Economics and Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-6535 • E-ISSN: 1530-9142 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/rest_a_00600 |
| OpenAlex | W1958287414 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 26 |
Between 2000 and 2010, five U.S. states adopted mandates requiring high school juniors to take a college entrance exam. In the two earliest-adopting states, nearly half of all students were induced into testing, and 40% to 45% of them earned scores high enough to qualify for selective colleges. Selective enrollment rose by 20% following implementation of the mandates, reflecting substitution away from noncompetitive schools. I conclude that a large number of high-ability students appear to dramatically underestimate their candidacy for selective colleges. Policies aimed at reducing this information shortage are likely to increase human capital investment for a substantial number of students
Actuarial science · Business · Candidacy · Capital investment · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Human capital · Investment (military) · Labour economics · Mathematics education · Medical education · Political science · Raising (metalworking) · Test (biology) · Engineering · Finance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Higher Education Research Studies · Law · Medicine · Psychology · School Choice and Performance
Closing the Gap
Margins that Matter
Can the Promise of Free Education Improve College Attainment? Lessons from the Milwaukee Area Technical College Promise
Do Less Informative College Admission Exams Reduce Earnings Inequality? Evidence from Colombia
College Credit on the Table? Advanced Placement Course and Exam Taking
Staying out of trouble? Effect of high school career counseling on crime
College admissions testing and learning about ability
English language requirement and educational inequality
Mixed Signals? Economically (Dis)advantaged Students’ College Attendance Under Mandatory College and Career Readiness Assessments
Untested Admissions
When categories change value
The Ambitious Generation
The Role of Application Assistance and Information in College Decisions
Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion
Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality
Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College
The Returns to College Admission for Academically Marginal Students
Measuring Expectations
Outsourcing at Will
The (Perceived) Returns to Education and the Demand for Schooling
Bootstrap-Based Improvements for Inference with Clustered Errors
The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on Earnings
Inference with “Difference in Differences” with a Small Number of Policy Changes
Does School Quality Matter? Returns to Education and the Characteristics of Public Schools in the United States
The Economic Costs of Conflict
The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |