The Missing "One-Offs": The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students

By C. Hoxby, Christopher Avery. 2013

816 citations recorded by the source corpus.

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/e15961fcf0da5c837512df46c2a99d1980c258d0

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Education

Citations in the corpus

Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility (2017, neutral): “(3)These findings support the conclusions of prior research documenting that elite private colleges have a large share of students from affluent families (e.g., Bowen and Bok 1998; Pallais and Turner 2006; Hill et al. 2011; Hoxby and Avery 2013).”
Stand and Deliver: Effects of Boston’s Charter High Schools on College Preparation, Entry, and Choice (2016, background): “This finding is notable given recent evidence that qualified poor students often choose not to attend four-year institutions (Bowen et al., 2009; Hoxby and Avery, 2012).”
The Social Cost of Strategic Classification (2018, background): “A large portion of high-achieving, low-income students do not apply to selective colleges, despite the fact that these colleges are typically less expensive for them because of the financial aid they would receive [16].”
The Big Sort: College Reputation and Labor Market Outcomes (2017, background): “…suggests that straightforward ability to pay—beyond the lack of information or ability to take advantage of financial aid opportunities highlighted by Hoxby and Avery (2012) and Hoxby and Turner (2013)—may account for some of the substantial role that socioeconomic status plays in college choice.”
Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, neutral): “Hoxby and Avery (2013) show that high-achieving, low-income high-school students apply to schools that are very different from their high-income counterparts, not applying to a single selective institution despite the expected net costs of at a set of these institutions being lower the costs of the…”
Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, background): “…low-income ones, do not attend the highest quality colleges available to them (Bowen, Chingos, and McPher-son 2009; Dillon and Smith 2013; Hoxby and Avery 2013; Smith, Pender, and Howell 2013) and that initial college choices can be altered by relatively low-cost interventions (Bettinger…”
The Test-Optional Movement at America’s Selective Liberal Arts Colleges (2015, background): “…reveals that a majority of high-achieving, low-income students fail even to apply at selective colleges and are generally unaware of the admissions requirements and benefits associated with selective higher education (Belasco & Trivette, in press; Hoxby & Avery, 2012; Smith et al., 2013).”
Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* (2020, background): “at such colleges than found by Hoxby and Avery (2013) because there are few children from low-”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, neutral): “For high-achieving, low-income students who are geographically isolated from other high-achieving peers, college application choice sets mirror those of peers who are socioeconomically rather than academically similar (Hoxby & Avery, 2013).”