Race and Stratification in U.S. College Enrolment over Time

19 October 2017
Thursday 19th October
Contatti: 
Segreteria Dipartimento di Sociologia Ricerca Sociale
Via Verdi, 26 - 38122 Trento
Tel. 
+39 0461 281322 - 281428

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Portineria del Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
Via Verdi, 26 I - 38122 Trento
tel. +39 0461 281300
portineria.sociologia [at] unitn.it

Time: 12:00 – 14:00
Venue: Department of Sociology and Social Research, via Verdi, 26 - Trento, Meeting Room - Third Floor

Brown bag seminars - Organized by the Center for Social Inequality Studies (CSIS) research unit

Speaker:

Abstract: We measure U.S. college enrollment-selectivity gaps by race/ethnicity using a novel method that is simultaneously sensitive to both the level (2- versus 4-year) and selectivity of the college in which students enroll.
We find that overall Hispanic-White and Black-White enrollment-selectivity gaps closed in the U.S. between 1986 and 2014.
However, this contraction was driven almost entirely by students at the margin between no college and college enrolling in non-degree granting programs.
This overall closing of gaps appears to be related to the closing of high school graduation gaps.
Among students who enrolled in degree granting schools, Black students have enrolled at increasingly less selective institutions than White students, while Hispanic-White gaps remained relatively unchanged over the nearly 30 years of our study.
These gaps are concerning because of their implications for long-term economic inequality.

You can find the draft-paper Daniel provided us as attachment.

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application/pdfPoster 'Race and Stratification ' - 19 ottobre.pdf(PDF | 203 KB)
application/pdfdraft-paper Baker Klasik Reardon - 2017(PDF | 747 KB)