Dale Trusheim

Effects of College Prestige on Men's Occupational Status and Income.

This study assesses the effects of college social prestige and college selectivity on mens occupational status and income. The analyses are based on a national sample of men from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. College selectivity, but not college social prestige, has a significant impact on middle-aged mens income in a single year. Neither college social prestige nor selectivity, however, affect further growth in middle-aged mens income. Nor do they affect mens occupational status.

Relationships among gender differences in freshman course grades and course characteristics

This article examines relationships among gender differences in freshman college course grades and characteristics of the courses. Gender differences in course grades are not adequately explained by gender differences in previous scholastic achievement. In addition, courses in which gender differences favor women tend to be those in which high school grades and Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores are less important for earning higher course grades. These courses also award higher-than-average grades to freshmen with average high school grades and SAT scores and enroll a higher percentage of female freshmen

THE EFFECTS OF COLLEGE GRADE ADJUSTMENTS ON THE PREDICTIVE VALIDITY AND UTILITY OF SAT SCORES

Regressing adjusted grade-point averages on freshman SAT scores and high school grade-point averages results in large increases in the incremental predictive validity of the SAT. Even so, the SAT still changes no more than a small proportion of admissions decisions and does not result in substantively important increases in freshman grades. The test does, however, change the composition of the freshman class by altering acceptances to some major areas of study and by limiting the access of women and blacks.