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Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States
Whether and which university to attend are among the most financially consequential choices most people make. Universities with relatively larger endowments can offer better education experiences, which can drive inequality in students’ subsequent outcomes. We first explore three interrelated questi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10320709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35475943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672221083766 |
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description | Whether and which university to attend are among the most financially consequential choices most people make. Universities with relatively larger endowments can offer better education experiences, which can drive inequality in students’ subsequent outcomes. We first explore three interrelated questions: the current educational inequality across U.S. universities, people’s perceptions of this inequality, and their desired inequality. Educational inequality is large: the top 20% of universities have 80% of the total university endowment wealth while the bottom 20% have around 1%. Studies 1 to 3 demonstrated that people underestimate university endowment inequality and desire more equality. These perceptions and ideals were mostly unaffected by contextual factors (e.g., salience of endowment consequences, distribution range) and were not well explained by participants’ demographics. Finally, Study 4 revealed that learning about current endowment inequality decreased tolerance of the distribution of university wealth. We discuss the implications of awareness of educational inequality for behaviors and educational policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-103207092023-07-06 Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States Day, Martin V. Norton, Michael I. Pers Soc Psychol Bull Articles Whether and which university to attend are among the most financially consequential choices most people make. Universities with relatively larger endowments can offer better education experiences, which can drive inequality in students’ subsequent outcomes. We first explore three interrelated questions: the current educational inequality across U.S. universities, people’s perceptions of this inequality, and their desired inequality. Educational inequality is large: the top 20% of universities have 80% of the total university endowment wealth while the bottom 20% have around 1%. Studies 1 to 3 demonstrated that people underestimate university endowment inequality and desire more equality. These perceptions and ideals were mostly unaffected by contextual factors (e.g., salience of endowment consequences, distribution range) and were not well explained by participants’ demographics. Finally, Study 4 revealed that learning about current endowment inequality decreased tolerance of the distribution of university wealth. We discuss the implications of awareness of educational inequality for behaviors and educational policies. SAGE Publications 2022-04-27 2023-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10320709/ /pubmed/35475943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672221083766 Text en © 2022 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States |
title_full | Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States |
title_fullStr | Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States |
title_full_unstemmed | Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States |
title_short | Perceived and Ideal Inequality in University Endowments in the United States |
title_sort | perceived and ideal inequality in university endowments in the united states |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10320709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35475943 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672221083766 |
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