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Diversity Journal Club — April, 6, 2023

January 26, 2023
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Hybrid: McPherson 4054 and Zoom

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Increasing the representation of low- and middle-income students at selective colleges could substantially increase inter-generational income mobility in the United States.

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