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Title: Are Law Schools Engines of Inequality?
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2019
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Abstract: ...]in each of these regressions, the coefficients of the independent variables describe how much a one-unit increase in the independent variable affects the amount of scholarship money one receives (the money being measured as a percent of one's total costs of attending law school). [...]in Model 1 the .0026 coefficient on zLSAT tells us that a one standard deviation increase in one's LSAT score (about 10 points on the current LSAT) produces (on average) a .26-point increase in the percentage of one's law school expenses covered by a need-based scholarship for the "average" student (for example, an increase from 2% to 2.26%.) [...]this shift is dwarfed by the dramatic expansion of non-need-based aid-recruitment-based discounts-to reach two-thirds of all law students. Since we cannot quantify aid amounts in the LSSSE data, we cannot do an OLS regression (as in Table 4) predicting the amount of aid students receive. The number of lawyers nearly quintupled between 1960 and 2000 - a growth rate of about 50% per decade - and the share of national income classified as based in legal services more than tripled. Since 2000, the lawyer population has grown only about 15% per decade, and the share of the economy going to legal services has been flat.41 The reasons for the slowdown deserve . . .
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Authors: Sander, Richard H
Periodical (Full): Journal of Law and Education
Issue: 2
Volume: 48
Pages: 243-263
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other
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