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100 _aGoodman, J. Gurantz, O. and Smith, J.
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245 _aTake two! Sat retaking and college enrollment gaps
260 _aAmerican Economic Journal Economic Policy
300 _a12(2), May, 2020: p.115-158
520 _aOnly half of SAT-takers retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low-income students and underrepresented minority (URM) students. We exploit discontinuous jumps in retake probabilities at multiples of 100, driven by left-digit bias, to estimate retaking's causal effects. Retaking substantially improves SAT scores and increases four-year college enrollment rates, particularly for low-income and URM students. Eliminating disparities in retake rates could close up to 10 percent of the income-based gap and up to 7 percent of the race-based gap in four-year college enrollment rates of high school graduates. – Reproduced
773 _aAmerican Economic Journal Economic Policy
906 _aEDUCATION
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