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Sandy, Jonathan; Duncan, Kevin – Education Economics, 2010
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Labor Market Experience for Youth (1997 cohort) are used to examine the urban school achievement gap. Specifically, we use the Blinder-Oaxaca technique to decompose differences in Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery scores for students who attended urban and suburban schools. We find that…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Scores, Aptitude Tests, Urban Schools