Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Racial Representation Among Academics and Students’ Academic and Labor Market Outcomes 
Author-Name: Angus Holford
Author-Email:
Author-Name: Sonkurt Sen
Author-Email: sonkurt.sen@uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: I23, I26, J15, J24
Keywords: minorities, representation, returns to education, labor market outcomes

Abstract: We study the impact of racial representation among academic staff on university
students’ academic and labor market outcomes. We use administrative data on the
universe of staff and students at all UK universities, linked to representative survey data
on students’ post-graduation outcomes, exploiting idiosyncratic variation (conditional on
a rich set of fixed effects and observable student, staff, and university-department level
characteristics) in the proportion of racial minority academic staff to whom students
are exposed. We find that own-race representation benefits the academic outcomes of
South Asian students but not Black students, and no beneficial impacts of own-race
representation on the labor market outcomes of either group. However, we do find
that same race representation among academic staff significantly increases progression
of Black and South Asian students to graduate study, suggesting that there may be
benefits of same-race representation operating through provision of role models or
domain-specific advice and guidance.


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Length: 43
Creation-Date: 2023-11
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File-URL: https://www.crctr224.de/research/discussion-papers/archive/dp471
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Handle: RePEc:bon:boncrc:CRCTR224_2023_471