Are All "Adolescent Econometricians" Created Equal? Racial, Class, and Gender Differences in College Enrollment

By Irenee R. Beattie. 2002

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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The Channeling of Student Competition in Higher Education: Comparing Canada and the U.S. (2005, background): “While student motives for entering higher education are complex and cannot be reduced simply to economic gain (Beattie, 2002), many students seek to maximize their returns from schooling.”
The College Application Gauntlet: A Systematic Analysis of the Steps to Four-Year College Enrollment (2011, background): “Students’ responses to labor market conditions and income expectations have been shown to vary by race, class, and gender, which may reflect that certain groups are more or less optimistic about their chances of completing a degree or more or less skeptical about the benefits of a degree (Beattie 20”
Deciding under Doubt: A Theory of Risk Aversion, Time Discounting Preferences, and Educational Decision-making (2014, background): “Some empirical studies do include direct subjective measures of students’ expected economic and other returns to education (Beattie, 2002; Stocké, 2007; van de Werfhorst and Hofstede, 2007; Gabay-Egozi, Shavit, and Yaish, 2010), or proxies for risk aversion such as the expected likelihood that an ed”
Creating College Opportunity: School Counselors and Their Influence on Postsecondary Enrollment (2013, background): “…other studies suggesting that the gender gap in postsecondary enrollment is not necessarily due to gender itself, but due to other factors that affect how males and females perceive a college education and prepare for the rigors of a postsecondary setting (Beattie 2002; Bozick and DeLuca 2005).”
Why Do More Women than Men Want to Earn a Four-Year Degree? Exploring the Effects of Gender, Social Origin, and Social Capital on Educational Expectations (2011, background): “…1992; Marjoribanks, 2002; Mau & Bikos, 2000; Reynolds & Burge, 2008; Turley, Santos, & Ceja, 2007), matriculation at postsecondary institutions (Beattie, 2002; National Center for Education Statistics [NCES], 2005; Peter & Horn, 2005) and postsecondary degree attainment (Buchmann & DiPrete,…”
Executive Summary: The Toolbox Revisited--Paths to Degree Completion from High School through College. (2006, background): “Beattie’s human capital analysis (2002) downplayed education expectations as a central feature of explaining outcomes, particularly in consideration of group differences.”
What Higher Education Has to Say about the Transition to College (2007, background): “Men are more likely than women to start at a two-year college (Adelman et al., 2003; Beattie, 2002; Bischoping & Bell, 1998; Jacobs, 1999; Leslie & Oaxaca, 1998), and are less likely to persist until completion (Ingels et al.”