TY  - JOUR
AU  - Weinberger, Catherine J
TI  - Engineering Educational Opportunity: Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with Major in Engineering or Computer Science
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 23703
PY  - 2017
Y2  - August 2017
DO  - 10.3386/w23703
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23703
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w23703.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Catherine Weinberger
ISBER
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-2150
Tel: 805 729 2641
E-Mail: weinberg@econ.ucsb.edu
M1  - published as Catherine J. Weinberger. "Engineering Educational Opportunity: Impacts of 1970s and 1980s Policies to Increase the Share of Black College Graduates with a Major in Engineering or Computer Science," in Richard B. Freeman and Hal Salzman, editors, "U.S. Engineering in a Global Economy" University of Chicago Press (2018)

M3  - presented at "U.S. Engineering in the Global Economy", September 26-27, 2011
AB  - Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. institutions of higher education began to address long-standing patterns of exclusion. Initial efforts to improve the access of black students to engineering education focused on six historically black engineering colleges, and evolved into a truly nationwide movement. Later, a larger group of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) expanded educational opportunities in engineering, computer science and other technical fields, "to prepare their students for expanded career choices." Geographic and institutional features of the higher education infrastructure led to differential impacts of these policies on students born in different states. A data panel assembled for the project links changes in educational opportunities to current outcomes. The panel includes more than 30 years of complete counts of the number of bachelor's degrees conferred in each field by each U.S. institution of higher education (collected by the U.S. Department of Education and the Engineering Manpower Commission), merged to current labor force data. These data facilitate description of the geography and timing of changes in opportunities for black college students to choose engineering or computer science college majors, and current labor market outcomes among those born in the right place and time to pursue careers in these fields.
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