Take Two! SAT Retaking and College Enrollment Gaps / Joshua Goodman, Oded Gurantz, Jonathan Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodman, Joshua.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Gurantz, Oded.

Smith, Jonathan.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24945.

NBER working paper series no. w24945

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

August 2018.