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Income and Access to Higher Education: Are High Quality Universities Becoming More or Less Elite? A Longitudinal Case Study of Admissions at UW-Madison

Sara E. Dahill-Brown, John F. Witte, Barbara Wolfe
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2016, 2 (1) 69-89; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.04
Sara E. Dahill-Brown
aAssistant professor of politics and international affairs at Wake Forest University
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John F. Witte
bProfessor emeritus of public affairs and political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Barbara Wolfe
cProfessor of economics and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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    Total Applicants and Proportion by Residence, 1972–2007

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    Real Median Family Income of Applicants, 1972–2007 (2009 dollars)

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    Family Income of Applicants to State Median Income, 1972–2007 (2009 dollars)

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    All Applicants by Family Income Quintile, 1972–2007

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    Proportion of Applicants by Race and Ethnicity, 1972–2007

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    Predicted Probability of Admission by Income Quintile, Selected Years

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    Effect of Membership in the First Income Quintile Versus the Fifth, 1972–2007

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    All Admitted Students by Family Income Quintile, 1972–2007

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    Effect of Identification as African American, 1972–2007

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    Predicted Probability of Admission, 1972 and 2007

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    Effect of ACT Score Change from 20 to 30, 1972–2007

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    Enrollees by Family Income (Estimated), 1989–2007

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