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The Effect of Access to College Assessments on Enrollment and Attainment

Author(s) -

George Bulman

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.20140062

Subject(s) - construct (python library) , test (biology) , sample (material) , psychology , center (category theory) , closing (real estate) , medical education , administration (probate law) , demographic economics , mathematics education , political science , medicine , business , computer science , economics , finance , paleontology , chemistry , chromatography , crystallography , biology , programming language , law

This paper examines if students' college outcomes are sensitive to access to college admissions tests. I construct a dataset of every test center location and district policy in the United States linked to the universe of individual testing records and a large sample of college enrollment records. I find evidence that SAT taking is responsive to the opening or closing of a testing center at a student's own or a neighboring high school and to policies that provide free in-school administration and default registration. Newly induced takers of high academic aptitude appear likely to attend and graduate from college. (JEL H75, I23, I28)

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