Public Universities, Equal Opportunity, and the Legacy of Jim Crow: Evidence from North Carolina

College attendance and completion in the U.S. are strongly correlated with race and socioeconomic background. Do public postsecondary institutions themselves exacerbate pre-college disparities, or reduce them? We address this question using longitudinal data linking the records of students at North

美国的大学入学与毕业情况，与种族及社会经济背景存在显著相关性。公立高等教育机构（postsecondary institutions）本身是加剧了大学前的差距，还是缩小了这些差距？我们通过关联北（原文此处不完整）学生记录的纵向数据（longitudinal data），来探讨这一问题。