Niu Sunny Xinchun, Tienda Marta
Princeton University, Wallace Hall, Office of Population Research, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544.
J Policy Anal Manage. 2010 Winter;29(1):84-110. doi: 10.1002/pam.20480. Epub 2009 Nov 30.
We use regression discontinuity methods on a representative survey of Texas high school seniors to discern the impact on flagship-enrollment behavior of the Texas top 10 percent law, which guarantees admission to any Texas public university to students who graduate in the top decile of their class. By comparing students at and immediately below the cut-point for automatic admission, we find that the top 10 percent law affects flagship enrollment of Hispanic students eligible for the admission guarantee, as well as rank-eligible graduates from high schools where minority students predominate and from high schools with the state average share of economically disadvantaged students. Our findings are robust to various model specifications and different bandwidth choices using local linear estimation.
我们运用回归断点法，对德克萨斯州高中毕业生的代表性调查数据进行分析，以探究德州前百分之十录取法对旗舰大学入学行为的影响。该法律规定，成绩位于班级前十分位的学生可自动被任何德州公立大学录取。通过比较刚好达到与略低于自动录取分数线的学生，我们发现前百分之十录取法影响了有资格获得录取保证的西班牙裔学生进入旗舰大学的情况，也影响了少数族裔学生占多数的高中以及经济弱势学生比例处于州平均水平的高中里符合排名要求的毕业生。我们的研究结果在使用局部线性估计的各种模型设定和不同带宽选择下都很稳健。
