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Effect of Opportunity: Capital as School Resource and College-Related Outcomes for African American and Hispanic Students
Fri, April 9, 10:40am to 12:10pm EDT (10:40am to 12:10pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Sociology of Education Paper and Symposium SessionsAbstract
The structural conditions by which African-American and Hispanic students experience education has created an opportunity gap in the access to equitable educational resources. Attempts to understand how educational resources impact educational outcomes for African-American and Hispanic students is usually limited because of comparisons of each group to their white peers. Using inverse-probability-weighting with regression adjustment (IPWRA), I take a critical quantitative approach (Stage 2007), centering the outcomes of African-American and Hispanic students. Drawing on Bourdieu (1986), I estimate causal effects of capital as a school resource (ITAC) on three college-related outcomes for each group. Causal estimates indicate that access to equitable educational opportunities affects the college readiness, the likelihood of college enrollment, and degree attainment for African-American and Hispanic students.