Assessing the "mismatch" hypothesis: Differences in college graduation rates by institutional selectivity

Sociology of Education

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 294-315

  Alon, Sigal ^a,b   Tienda, Marta ^b,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844499998     PISSN: 00380407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003804070507800402     Document Type: Review

References (60)

1. Abadie, Alberto, David Drukker, Jane L. Herr, and Guido W. Imbens. 2004. "Implementing Matching Estimators for Average Treatment Effects in Stata." Stata Journal 4:290-311.
2. Alon, Sigal. 2004, October 28-30. "The Influence of Financial Aid in Leveling Group Differences in Persistence among Students Attending Selective Private Institutions." Paper presented at the conference of the Association for Public Policy and Management, Atlanta, GA.
3. Anderson, Andy B., Alexander Basilevsky, and Derek P. J. Hum. (1983) '"Missing Data'": A Review of the Literature." Pp. 415-94 in Handbook of Survey Research, edited by Peter H. Rossi, James D. Wright, and Andy B. Anderson. New York: Academic Press.
4. Arkes, Hal R. 1999. "Review: The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions." Liberty, 83, 51-56. Available on-line at http://www.libertysoft.com/liberty/reviews/71arkes.html
5. Barron's. 2003. Profiles of American Colleges (25th ed.). Hauppauge, NY: Author.
6. "Best Colleges." 2003. U.S. News and World Report. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/rankindex.htm
7. Bowen, William G., and Derek Bok. 1998. The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering Race in College and University Admissions. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
8. Camron, Stephen V., and James J. Heckman. 1998. "Life Cycle Schooling and Dynamic Selection Bias: Models and Evidence for Five Cohorts of American Males." Journal of Political Economy 106:262-333.
9. Carnevale, Anthony P. and Stephen J. Rose. 2003. "Socioeconomic Status, Race/Ethnicity, and Selective College Admissions." Available on-line at http://www.tcf.org/Publications/Education/carnevale_rose.pdf
10. Clarke, Marguerite, and Arnold Shore. 2001. The Roles of Testing and Diversity in College Admissions. Boston: National Board on Educational Testing and Public Policy.
11. Crawford, Curtis. 2000. "Weighing the Benefits and Costs of Racial Preference in College Admissions: Review of The Shape of the River: Long-Term Consequences of Considering race in College and University Admissions." Society 37(4): 71-80. Available on-line at http:// www.ceousa.org/crawford.html
12. Davies, Scott, and Neil Guppy. 1997. "Fields of Study, College Selectivity, and Student Inequalities." Social Forces 73(4):131-51.
13. Davis, Robert B. 1991. "Social Support Networks and Undergraduate Students' Academic-Success-Related Outcomes: A Comparison of Black Students on Black and White Campuses." Pp. 143-157 in College in Black and White: African American Students in Predominantly White and in Historically Black Public Universities, edited by Walter R. Allen, Edgar G. Epps, and Nesha Z. Haniff. New York: State University of New York Press.
14. Dworkin, Ronald. 1998, October 22. "Affirming Affirmative Action." New York Review of Books, pp. 91-102.
15. Entwisle, Doris R., Karl L. Alexander, and Linda S. Olson. 1997. Children, Schools, and Inequality. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
16. Fry, Richard. 2003. "Hispanic Youth Dropping Out of U.S. Schools: Measuring the Challenge." Research Report. Washington, D.C.: Pew Hispanic Center. Available on-line at http://www.pewhispanic.org/site/docs/pdf/hi gh%20school%20dropout%20report - final.pdf
17. Gamoran, Adam. 1987. "The Stratification of High School Learning Opportunities." Sociology of Education 60:135-55.
18. Gamoran, Adam, and Mark Berends. 1987. "The Effect of Stratification in Secondary Schools: Synthesis of Survey and Ethnographic Research." Review of Educational Research 57:415-35.
19. Gamoran, Adam, and Robert Mare. 1989. "Secondary School Tracking and Educational Inequality: Compensation, Reinforcement, or Neutrality?" American Journal of Sociology 94:1146-83.
20. Graglia, Lino A. 1993. "Racial Preferences in Admission to Institutions of Higher Education." Pp. 127-51 in The Imperiled Academy, edited by Howard Dickman. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
21. Greenberg, Jack. 2002. "Affirmative Action in Higher Education: Confronting the Condition and Theory." Boston College Law Review 43:521-621.
22. Greene, William H. 2000. Econometric Analysis (4th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
23. Hallinan, Maureen T. 1996. "Track Mobility in Secondary School." Social Forces 74:983-1002.
24. _. 2001. "Sociological Perspectives on Black-White Inequalities in American Schooling." Sociology of Education [Extra Issue]:74:50-70.
25. Hearn, James C. 1984. "The Relative Roles of Academic, Ascribed, and Socioeconomic Characteristics in College Destination." Sociology of Education 57:22-30.
26. _. 1990. "Pathways to Attendance at the Elite Colleges." Pp. 121-47 in The High Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification, edited by Paul W. Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis. Albany: State University of New York Press.
27. _. 1991. "Academic and Non-Academic Influence on the College Destinations of 1980 High School Graduates." Sociology of Education 64:158-71.
28. Heckman James J. 1978. "Dummy Endogenous Variables in a Simultaneous Equation System." Econometrica 46:931-59.
29. _. 1997. "Instrumental Variable: A study of Implicit Behavioural Assumptions Used in Making Program Evaluations." Journal of Human Resources 32:441-61.
30. Heckman, James J., and V. Joseph Hotz. 1989. "Choosing Among Alternative Nonexperimental Methods for Estimating the Impact of Social Programs: The Case of Manpower Training." Journal of the American Statistical Association 84:862-74.
31. Heckman, James J., Hidehiko Ichimura, and Petra Todd. 1997. "Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator: Evidence from Evaluating a Job Training Programme." Review of Economic Studies [Special Issue] 64:605-54.
32. _. 1998. "Matching as an Econometric Evaluation Estimator." Review of Economic Studies 65: 261-94.
33. Hoffer, Thomas. 1992. "Middle School Ability Grouping and Student Achievement in Science and Mathematics." Education Evaluation and Policy Analysis 14:205-27.
34. Kane, Thomas J. 1998. "Misconceptions in the Debate Over Affirmative Action in College Admissions." Pp. 17-32 in Chilling Admissions: The Affirmative Crisis and the Search for Alternatives, edited by Gary Orfield and Edward Miller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Publishing Group.
35. Karen, David. 2002. "Changes in Access to Higher Education in the United States: 1980-1992." Sociology of Education 75:191-210.
36. Kingston, Paul W., and Lionel S. Lewis. 1990. "Undergraduates at Elite Institutions: The Best, the Brightest, and the Richest." Pp. 105-20 in The High-Status Track: Studies of Elite Schools and Stratification, edited by Paul W. Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis. Albany: University of New York Press.
37. Lerner, Robert, and Althea K. Nagai. 2001. "Pervasive Preferences: Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Undergraduate Admissions across the Nation." Available on-line at http://www.ceousa.org/multi.html
38. Long, J. Scott. 1997. Regression Models for Categorical and Limited Dependent Variables. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
39. Massey, Douglas S., Camille Z. Charles, Garvey Lundy, and Mary J. Fischer. 2003. Source of the River: The Social Origin of Freshmen at America's Selective Colleges and Universities. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press.
40. McDonough, Patricia M. 1994. "Buying and Selling Higher Education: The Social Construction of the College Applicant." Journal of Higher Education 65:427-46.
41. National Center for Education Statistics. 1996. The Condition of Education (Table 10-1). Available on-line at http://www.nces.ed.gov/pubsold/ ce96/c9610d01.html
42. Nettles, Michael T. 1991. Racial similarities and differences in the predictors of college student achievement. Pp. 75-91 in College in Black and White: African American Students in Predominantly White and in Historically Black Public Universities, edited by Walter R. Allen, Edgar G. Epps, and Nesha Z. Haniff. New York: State University of New York Press.
43. Nettles, Michael T., A. Robert Thoeny, and Erica J. Gosman. 1986. "Comparative and Predictive Analyses of Black and White Students' College Achievement and Experiences, Journal of Higher Education 57:289-318.
44. Pascarella, Earnest T., and Patrick T. Terenzini. 1980. Predicting freshman persistence and voluntary dropout decisions from a theoretical model, Journal of Higher Education 57:60-75.
45. Pascarella, Earnest T., Patrick T. Terenzini, and James Hibel. 1978. "Student-Faculty Interactional Settings and Their Relationship to Predicted Academic Performance." Journal of Higher Education 49:450-63.
46. Pell, Terrance J. 2003. "Racial Preferences and Formal Equality." Journal of Social Philosophy 342:309-25.
47. Persell, Caroline Hodges, Sophia Catsambis, and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. 1992. "Differential Asset Conversion: Class and Gendered Pathways to Selective Colleges." Sociology of Education 65:208-25.
48. Pindyck, Robert S., and Daniel L. Rubinfeld. 1998. Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts (4th ed.). Boston: Irwin/McGraw-Hill.
49. Rosenbaum, Paul R., and Donald B. Rubin. 1983. "The Central Role of the Propensity Score in Observational Studies for Casual Effect." Biometrika 70(1):41-55.
50. Slavin, Robert E. 1990. "Achievement Effects of Ability Grouping in Secondary Schools: A Best Evidence Synthesis." Review of Educational Research 60:471-99.
51. Small, Mario Luis, and Christopher Winship. 2002. "Better Environments or Better Students? Why Black Graduation Rates Vary Across Elite Colleges and Universities." Working Paper presented at Mellon Foundation Diversity in Higher Education Conference.
52. Sowell, Thomas. 2003, February 8. "Damaging Admissions: Increasing Faculty Diversity." Capitalism Magazine. Available on-line at http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2448
53. Thernstrom, Stephan, and Abigail Thernstrom. 1997. America in Black and White: One Nation Indivisible. New York: Simon & Schuster.
54. _. 1999. "Reflections on The Shape of the River Book Review." UCLA Law Review 46:1583-1631.
55. Tinto, Vincent. 1993. Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition (2nd ed.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
56. Vars, Fredrick E., and William G. Bowen. 1998. "Scholastic Aptitude Test Scores, Race, and Academic Performance in Selective Colleges and Universities." Pp. 457-79 in The Black-White Test Score Gap, edited by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
57. Von Destinon, M. (1988). Chicano Student Persistence: The Effects of Integration and Involvement. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
58. Winship, Christopher, and Robert D. Mare. 1992. "Models for Sample Selection Bias." Annual Review of Sociology 18:327-50.
59. Winship, Christopher, and Stephen L. Morgan. 1999. "The Estimation of Causal Effects from Observational Data." Annual Review of Sociology 25:659-706.
60. Winship, Christopher, and Michael Sobel. 2004. "Casual Inference in Sociological Studies." Pp. 481-503 in Handbook of Data Analysis, edited by Melissa Hardy and Adam Bryman. London: Sage.