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Who Goes to College? Differential Enrollment by Race and Family Background
Black, Sandra E. - 2002
, controlling for family background, blacks are more likely to enroll in college than whites. This relationship is somewhat … understand what is driving these differences across the distribution of family background characteristics and why the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469396
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Apply Yourself : Racial and Ethnic Differences in College Application
Black, Sandra E. - 2015
than just matching their academic ability to the institution, and prefer institutions with a large proportion of same race … students and campuses where same race students from their high school have been successful in the past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457300
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Like Father, Like Son? A Note on the Intergenerational Transmission of IQ Scores
Black, Sandra E. - 2008
More able parents tend to have more able children. While few would question the validity of this statement, there is little large-scale evidence on the intergenerational transmission of IQ scores. Using a larger and more comprehensive dataset than previous work, we are able to estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464372