There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …

and 1997 to calculate the gap in computer use between African-American, Hispanic and White Students. Black students were … 16 percentage points less likely than White students to use a computer in school in 1984, and only 6 percentage points …. Differences in the use of the internet at school are also documented. Black and Hispanic students seem to lag behind in using the …

There are many estimates of the effect of college quality on students' subsequent earnings. One difficulty interpreting … past estimates, however, is that elite colleges admit students, in part, based on characteristics that are related to their … difficult to parse out the effect of attending a selective college from the students' pre-college characteristics. This paper …