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ERIC Number: ED627119
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2022-Aug-10
Pages: 22
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
The Effect of the Uniform Bar Examination on Admissions, Diversity, Affordability, and Employment across Law Schools in the United States
The Uniform Bar Examination (UBE) is a multijurisdictional test that law students can use to gain admission to the bar in 37 states and territories. Despite this near-universal applicability and the potential of UBE to impact law schools' admissions, diversity, affordability, and employment outcomes, no research to date has examined the impacts of UBE. Equipped with a novel dataset that we make available to future researchers, we apply a difference-in-differences design to estimate these impacts by exploiting variation in UBE adoption timing across states. We find early evidence to suggest that law schools in UBE states benefitted by receiving more applications and having higher overall enrollments after UBE adoption. [This paper will be published in "Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis."]
Related Records: EJ1387109
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305B200035