I'm in the midst of a literature search on race and educational attainment.
In particular, I'm trying to find other articles that may help me account
for the following anomaly. In racilly stratified (white, African
American, Latino) regressions which control for a ton of personal
background variables, i.e., family structure, parent's income, parent's
education, age, number of siblings, age grade delay, region (nation) father
was raised, region (nation) mother was raised, region (nation) individual
was raised, rural-urban, father's occupation, and nationality in the Latino
regression (Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, other), and where the dependent
variable is the level of educational attainment, I find that substituting
the white coefficients into the African American regression SUBSTANTIALLY
UNDERPREDICTS African American educational attainment relative to either
actual attainment or predicted attainment when African American's own
coefficients are used.
Treacy: Back in the dim past of reading at least 30 years ago was a study
on racial differences on savings. Findings were that Blacks saved
more at every level of income.
My dataset (the Panel Study of Income Dynamics) does not have any direct
information on school quality or the actual educational process.
Nevertheless, I think the results are interesting. However, I am told that
said results are not unusual.
Any references to similar work is appreciated. "Similar work" includes
research on test scores that control for race and background.
Treacy: I am at present looking at data on Ohio educational achievement.
We have implemented a requirement that all students pass a nine
grade acheivement level in reading, writing, civics, and math in
order to get a high school diploma. There has been some complaints
that the tests are biased because large, black dominated districts
have had much higher failure rates. In the first round of testing
Ottawa Hills School District, the highest family income district in
the state, passed 92 per cent of takers while, Jefferson Township a
predominately black district outside of Dayton passes only 8 per cent.
Later test scores are now locked in the maze of student confidentiality
but I've just gotten a fresh batch of data on all district test scores
to poke through. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanx,
Patrick L. Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. Of Economics-Highlander Hall (909) 787 - 5037 ext 1577
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521
