The impact of legacy status on undergraduate admissions at elite colleges and universities
In this paper, I examine the impact of legacy status on admissions decisions at 30 highly selective colleges and universities. Unlike other quantitative studies addressing this topic, I use conditional logistic regression with fixed effects for colleges to draw conclusions about the impact of legacy status on admissions odds. By doing so, I eliminate most sources of outcome bias by controlling for applicant characteristics that are constant across colleges and college characteristics that are constant across applicants. I estimate that the odds of admission are multiplied by a factor 3.13 due ... Show more
Authors: Hurwitz, Michael
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Elsevier Science, 2011
Resource type: Article
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