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What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?

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  • Gregory Price
  • Angelino Viceisza

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Historically Black colleges and universities are institutions that were established prior to 1964 with the principal mission of educating Black Americans. In this essay, we focus on two main issues. We start by examining how Black College students perform across HBCUs and non-HBCUs by looking at a relatively broad range of outcomes, including college and graduate school completion, job satisfaction, social mobility, civic engagement, and health. HBCUs punch significantly above their weight, especially considering their significant lack of resources. We then turn to the potential causes of these differences and provide a glimpse into the “secret sauce” of HBCUs. We conclude with potential implications for HBCU and non-HBCU policy.

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  • Gregory Price & Angelino Viceisza, 2023. "What Can Historically Black Colleges and Universities Teach about Improving Higher Education Outcomes for Black Students?," NBER Working Papers 31131, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:31131
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    1. Kristin F. Butcher & Patrick McEwan & Akila Weerapana, 2023. "Women's Colleges and Economics Major Choice: Evidence from Wellesley College Applicants," Working Paper Series WP 2023-21, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
    2. Rodolfo M. Nayga & Jianhui Liu & Bachir Kassas, 2024. "The looming demographic cliff: A wake‐up call for the agricultural and applied economics profession," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 106(2), pages 468-484, March.

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    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
    • Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification

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