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A continuous income-based grade gap decomposition on university course grades

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  • Shawn W. Ulrick
  • Kevin P. Mongeon
  • Michael P. Giannetto

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The earnings premium for education, and higher education in particular, is well documented. This article examines the college achievement gap between students coming from positions of high and low socio-economic status. Other papers have also looked at this issue, often by employing, at least in part, an Oaxaca decomposition. Past papers artificially divided socio-economic status into binary groups of high and low, in order to employ the decomposition. Socio-economic status is innately a continuous variable. Therefore, we implement a continuous version of the Oaxaca decomposition. Higher socio-economic students are both slightly better prepared in terms of observable characteristics and have better returns to their characteristics than lower socio-economic students. Notable differences across results obtained from the binary and continuous decomposition methods are discussed.

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  • Shawn W. Ulrick & Kevin P. Mongeon & Michael P. Giannetto, 2018. "A continuous income-based grade gap decomposition on university course grades," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(31), pages 3388-3404, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:50:y:2018:i:31:p:3388-3404
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2017.1420893
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