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Author: Kinnard, Vincent
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1. Rodezno, Wilfredo
Kinnard, Vincent
Manzanares, Carlos A.
Understanding the Black-White and Hispanic-White Test Score Gaps For Children Ages 5 to 13
Working Paper, American Economic Association Summer Training Program, Department of Economics, University of California - Santa Barbara, Summer 2009.
Also: http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/aeastp/aresearch/2009/Understanding%20the%20Black-White%20and%20Hispanic-White%20Test.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79
Publisher: Department of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara
Keyword(s): CESD (Depression Scale); Depression (see also CESD); Ethnic Differences; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Punishment, Corporal; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT

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Utilizing the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79), in this paper we document the black-white and hispanic-white math test score gaps for cross sections of children of ages 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13, and explore some of the potential causes of these gaps. Specifically, we test whether language proficiency is important for explaining the hispanic-white test score gap, using a series of language proxies within the NLSY. Additionally, we utilize the panel nature of the NLSY to characterize the effects of race and other controls on the rates of change of math test scores, using first difference models with race indicators re-inserted in the difference model.
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Rodezno, Wilfredo, Vincent Kinnard and Carlos A. Manzanares. "Understanding the Black-White and Hispanic-White Test Score Gaps For Children Ages 5 to 13." Working Paper, American Economic Association Summer Training Program, Department of Economics, University of California - Santa Barbara, Summer 2009.