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Supplemental File: Socioeconomic Disparities In The Use Of College Admission-Enhancing Strategies Among High School Seniors From The 1990s To 2000s, Ryan S. Wells, Gregory C. Wolniak, Mark E. Engberg, Catherine A. Manly Jan 2016

Supplemental File: Socioeconomic Disparities In The Use Of College Admission-Enhancing Strategies Among High School Seniors From The 1990s To 2000s, Ryan S. Wells, Gregory C. Wolniak, Mark E. Engberg, Catherine A. Manly

Ryan S. Wells

This study examines whether strategies commonly used by high school students for enhancing their chances of gaining college admission may contribute to social inequality in postsecondary education. Comparisons are made between nationally representative samples of high school seniors across two decades, from the early 1990s to the early 2000s. The analyses identify the extent to which students’ SES was associated with the use of admission-enhancing strategies, determine the extent to which the relationships changed across a two-decade period, and examine the role of academic achievement in this process. Results confirm that higher SES students are more likely to employ admission-enhancing …


Reporting Multiple Imputation: Example Stata Code, Catherine A. Manly, Ryan S. Wells Jan 2015

Reporting Multiple Imputation: Example Stata Code, Catherine A. Manly, Ryan S. Wells

Ryan S. Wells

The miexample.do file includes Stata code illustrating implementation of the recommended multiple imputation (MI) reporting practices from the article "Reporting the use of multiple imputation for missing data in higher education research," Research in Higher Education, doi: 10.1007/s11162-014-9344-9. After a brief description of the example used in the code (which uses a publicly available, downloadable dataset), a sample paragraph offers possible text for writing up results using MI to handle missing data in this example. In both the sample paragraph and the subsequent example Stata code, the recommended MI reporting practices identified in the article (Table 1) are highlighted. These …