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Title: The Effects of University Affirmative Action Policies on the Human Capital Development of Minority Children: Do Expectations Matter?
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Caldwell, Ronald C., Jr. |
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The Effects of University Affirmative Action Policies on the Human Capital Development of Minority Children: Do Expectations Matter? Working Paper, West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, April 2009. Also: http://ideas.repec.org/p/kan/wpaper/200812.html Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Publisher: School of Social Work, University of Washington Keyword(s): Achievement; Affirmative Action; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Human Capital; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Parental Influences; Peabody Individual Achievement Test (PIAT- Math); Racial Differences; State-Level Data/Policy; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Research shows that minority children enter the labor market with lower levels of acquired skill than do white children. This paper attempts to analyze one possible cause: the impact of a perceived lack of future opportunities on the human capital development of minority children. I take advantage of changes in affirmative action laws in California and Texas as a natural experiment and employ both difference-in-difference-in-difference and fixed effects methodologies to test for changes in achievement test scores among minority children. The results show a significant negative impact among black children of all ages in the affected states. |
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Caldwell, Ronald C., Jr. "The Effects of University Affirmative Action Policies on the Human Capital Development of Minority Children: Do Expectations Matter?" Working Paper, West Coast Poverty Center, University of Washington, April 2009. |