10.17889/E110752
Bulman, George
Replication data for: The Effect of Access to College Assessments on Enrollment and Attainment
ICPSR Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
2014
10.1257/app.20140062
10.1257/app.20140062
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This paper examines if students' college outcomes are sensitive to
access to college admissions tests. I construct a dataset of every test
center location and district policy in the United States linked to the
universe of individual testing records and a large sample of college
enrollment records. I find evidence that SAT taking is responsive to
the opening or closing of a testing center at a student's own or a
neighboring high school and to policies that provide free in-school
administration and default registration. Newly induced takers of high
academic aptitude appear likely to attend and graduate from college.
(JEL H75, I23, I28)