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Diversity Journal Club — April, 6, 2023
Money Matters: "Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States"
Deb, Kaz, and Karina will present a study using publicly available tax data to understand how income plays a factor in higher education representation.
Key findings
Low– and middle-income students attend selective schools at lower rates than their peers from richer families, even when comparing students with the same test scores.
The middle class is heavily under-represented at elite private colleges relative to others with the same test scores, but children from the lowest-income families are not.
If low-income students were given a preference in the application and admissions process similar to that given to children of alumni at elite private colleges, the fraction of low-income students would be similar across colleges.
Increasing the representation of low- and middle-income students at selective colleges could substantially increase inter-generational income mobility in the United States.
Links:
Core Literature: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/undermatching/
Summary: https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/undermatch_summary.pdf
SES Indicators for OSU (as an example): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/the-ohio-state-university
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2023-01-26 12:30:00
2023-01-26 13:30:00
Diversity Journal Club — April, 6, 2023
Money Matters: "Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States"
Deb, Kaz, and Karina will present a study using publicly available tax data to understand how income plays a factor in higher education representation.
Key findings
Low– and middle-income students attend selective schools at lower rates than their peers from richer families, even when comparing students with the same test scores.
The middle class is heavily under-represented at elite private colleges relative to others with the same test scores, but children from the lowest-income families are not.
If low-income students were given a preference in the application and admissions process similar to that given to children of alumni at elite private colleges, the fraction of low-income students would be similar across colleges.
Increasing the representation of low- and middle-income students at selective colleges could substantially increase inter-generational income mobility in the United States.
Links:
Core Literature: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/undermatching/
Summary: https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/undermatch_summary.pdf
SES Indicators for OSU (as an example): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/the-ohio-state-university
Hybrid: McPherson 4054 and Zoom
America/New_York
public
Money Matters: "Income Inequality and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States"
Deb, Kaz, and Karina will present a study using publicly available tax data to understand how income plays a factor in higher education representation.
Key findings
- Low– and middle-income students attend selective schools at lower rates than their peers from richer families, even when comparing students with the same test scores.
- The middle class is heavily under-represented at elite private colleges relative to others with the same test scores, but children from the lowest-income families are not.
- If low-income students were given a preference in the application and admissions process similar to that given to children of alumni at elite private colleges, the fraction of low-income students would be similar across colleges.
- Increasing the representation of low- and middle-income students at selective colleges could substantially increase inter-generational income mobility in the United States.
Links:
- Core Literature: https://opportunityinsights.org/paper/undermatching/
- Summary: https://opportunityinsights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/undermatch_summary.pdf
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SES Indicators for OSU (as an example): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/college-mobility/the-ohio-state-university
