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Download full textJoshua Goodman; Oded Gurantz; Jonathan Smith – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2019
Only half of SAT-takers retake the exam, with even lower retake rates among low income and underrepresented minority (URM) students. We exploit discontinuous jumps in retake probabilities at multiples of 100, driven by left-digit bias, to estimate retaking's causal effects. Retaking substantially improves SAT scores and increases four-year college…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, College Attendance, Scores, Test Wiseness
