From Bakke to Hopwood: Does Race Affect College Attendance and Completion?
利用美国青年纵向调查数据，分析种族偏好禁令背景下，白人与少数族裔在大学入学和毕业行为上的差异，发现少数族裔更可能入学但毕业率较低。
In light of recent, state-level actions banning racial preference in college admissions decisions, we investigate how whites and minorities differ in their college-going behavior. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we estimate a sequential model of college attendance and graduation decisions that allows correlations among the errors. Our estimates reveal that minorities are more likely than observationally equivalent whites to attend colleges of all quality levels. Being a minority has a positive effect on graduation probabilities, but, overall, minorities are less likely than their white counterparts to complete college because they possess fewer favorable unobserved factors. © 2002 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology