ERIC Number: EJ1387109
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Sep
Pages: 10
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
EISSN: EISSN-1935-1062
The Effect of the Uniform Bar Examination on Admissions, Diversity, Affordability, and Employment across Law Schools in the United States
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v45 n3 p520-529 Sep 2023
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 affect law schools' admissions, diversity, affordability, and employment outcomes, no research to date has examined the impacts of UBE. Equipped with a novel data set 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 benefited by receiving more applications and having higher overall enrollments after UBE adoption. [For the corresponding grantee submission, see ED627119.]
Descriptors: Licensing Examinations (Professions), Legal Education (Professions), Law Students, Law Schools, College Admission, Enrollment, Tuition, Graduation Rate, Occupational Mobility
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Related Records: ED627119
Publication Type: Journal Articles; 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