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Direct linkHoxby, Caroline M.; Turner, Sarah – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
In identifying whether universities provide opportunities for low-income students, there is a measurement challenge: different institutions face students with different incomes and preparation. We show how a hypothetical university's "relevant pool"--the students from whom it could plausibly draw--affects popular measures: the Pell…
Descriptors: Educational Opportunities, Low Income Students, Disproportionate Representation, Institutional Characteristics
Peer reviewedTebbs, Jeffrey; Turner, Sarah – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
The extent to which colleges and universities provide opportunities for students from the most economically disadvantaged families is an important indicator of the potential for U.S. higher education to promote intergenerational mobility. Yet the measurement of "opportunity" for low-income students at the level of individual colleges and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Colleges, Universities, Measurement Techniques
