Social Capital, Financial Knowledge, and Hispanic Student College Choices

Autor/inn/en	O'Connor, Noga; Hammack, Floyd M.; Scott, Marc A.
Titel	Social Capital, Financial Knowledge, and Hispanic Student College Choices
Quelle	In: Research in Higher Education, 51 (2010) 3, S.195-219 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-0365
DOI	10.1007/s11162-009-9153-8
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Social Capital; Enrollment; Hispanic American Students; College Choice; Disproportionate Representation; Statistical Analysis; Educational Finance; Student Characteristics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Sozialkapital; Einschulung; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Studienortwahl; Statistische Analyse; Bildungsfonds
Abstract	Hispanic students are significantly over-represented in community colleges compared to White and Black students. This paper uses a powerful but underutilized statistical technique, the Oaxaca decomposition, to explore the impact of social capital, as manifested through college financial information, on Hispanic student enrollment in 4-year and 2-year programs. Background differences between the groups were found to have only a small effect on the gap in attending 4-year schools, while the effect of differential returns to these background characteristics was strong and significant. The analysis revealed that some variables of college financial information contribute significantly to the gap. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10