Who Takes Advanced Placement (AP)?

This paper provides an analysis of who takes Advanced Placement (AP) Economics. We find large differences in enrollment in AP Economics across groups. Specifically, African-American and Hispanic students and students from low-income backgrounds are about half as likely to be enrolled in AP Economics...

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Published inEastern economic journal Vol. 41; no. 3; pp. 346 - 369
Main Authors Scafidi, Benjamin P., Clark, Christopher, Swinton, John R.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Palgrave Macmillan 01.07.2015
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Subjects
A13
A21
Academic achievement
Advanced Placement program
African Americans
Asian students
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
Economics
Economics and Finance
Economics education
Education
Enrollments
Ethnicity
Geography
Geometry
High income
Hispanic people
I24
Low income groups
Mathematics
Regression analysis
School boards
Secondary schools
Students
White people
United States > US
A21
I24
achievement gaps
access
A13
advanced placement
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Summary:This paper provides an analysis of who takes Advanced Placement (AP) Economics. We find large differences in enrollment in AP Economics across groups. Specifically, African-American and Hispanic students and students from low-income backgrounds are about half as likely to be enrolled in AP Economics as other students. However, once we control for prior academic achievement in Geometry, African-American and Hispanic students are overrepresented relative to whites and the difference between low-income and other students is reduced significantly. Female students are overrepresented relative to males, and Asian students are overrepresented relative to whites — this latter effect is large.
ISSN:0094-5056
1939-4632
DOI:10.1057/eej.2014.21