Equality of Opportunity Reflection

In the last few weeks of class, we focused on analyzing the raw data provided by the Equality of Opportunity Project. My group specifically concentrated on gender. We looked to see if there were gender differences between college tiers and parental income levels. We had expected to see a greater mean parental income for females than males […]

Equality Opportunity Project: Do more boys in the top 1% attend Ivy League schools than girls in the top 1%?

GENDER Gender Gap Within College Tiers and Parental Income We examined the mean parental incomes of both male and female students within each college tier and compared them to trends that we hypothesized. Before making the graph, we hypothesized that students at higher-tiered colleges would have a greater mean parental income than students at lower-tiered …

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