Sarah K Cowan
Sarah K Cowan
This study examines who hears what secrets, comparing two similar secrets-one that is highly stigmatized and one that is less so. Using a unique survey representative of American adults and intake forms from a medical clinic, I document mar...
The Community College Effect Revisited: The Importance of Attending to Heterogeneity and Complex Counterfactuals [0.03%]
再论社区大学的影响：关注异质性和复杂情况的重要性
Jennie E Brand,Fabian T Pfeffer,Sara Goldrick-Rab
Jennie E Brand
Community colleges are controversial educational institutions, often said to simultaneously expand college opportunities and diminish baccalaureate attainment. We assess the seemingly contradictory functions of community colleges by attendi...
Joscha Legewie,Thomas A DiPrete
Joscha Legewie
Despite the striking reversal of the gender gap in educational attainment and the near-gender parity in math performance, women pursue science and engineering (S/E) degrees at much lower rates than their male peers do. Current efforts to in...