Why Has Black-White Skill Convergence Stopped? NBER Working Paper No. 11090.

By Derek A. Neal. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education, Sociology and Political Science

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What happens after enrollment? An analysis of the time path of racial differences in GPA and major choice (2012, background): “The main findings indicate that African American children enter kindergarten lagging behind their white counterparts, and these differences are likely to persist for the foreseeable future (Neal 2006).”
Patterns of Hispanic Students' Math Skill Proficiency in the Early Elementary Grades (2007, background): “…the cognitive skill development of African American and non-Hispanic White students (e.g., see Fryer & Levitt, 2004, 2005; Jencks & Phillips, 1998; Neal, 2005), researchers have relatively little systematic, nationally representative data on the longitudinal patterns of cognitive skill…”
Increasing Racial Isolation and Test Score Gaps in Mathematics: A 30-Year Perspective (2010, background): “…many researchers have speculated as to why the test score gaps closed between the early 1970s and the early 1990s (e.g., Ferguson 1998; Koretz 1986; Neal 2006; Porter 2005), only a few have been able to empirically study how changes in school factors and social background characteristics relate to…”
Inequality of opportunity in the land of opportunities, 1968–2001 (2009, background): “the large racial educational inequalities in the United States as described by Neal [31].”
Racial Inequality in the 21st Century: The Declining Significance of Discrimination. NBER Working Paper No. 16256. (2010, unknown): “See Neal (2005) for a detailed account of this.”
American IQ Gains From 1932 to 2002: The WISC Subtests and Educational Progress (2007, unknown): “Those who went on to complete either a BA or BS rose from about 13% in 1948, to 25% in 1972, and to about 33% in 2000 (Herrnstein & Murray, 1994; Neal, 2005).”