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Can Tracking Raise the Test Scores of High-Ability Minority Students?

Overview of attention for article published in American Economic Review, October 2016
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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21 news outlets
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12 policy sources
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61 X users
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Article details
Title
Can Tracking Raise the Test Scores of High-Ability Minority Students?
Published in
American Economic Review, October 2016
DOI 10.1257/aer.20150484
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 3 2%
Germany 2 1%
Spain 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 191 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 52 26%
Researcher 19 10%
Student > Master 18 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 17 9%
Other 9 5%
Other 26 13%
Unknown 57 29%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 80 40%
Social Sciences 27 14%
Business, Management and Accounting 8 4%
Psychology 5 3%
Arts and Humanities 4 2%
Other 16 8%
Unknown 58 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 255. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 May 2026.
All research outputs
#181,959
of 34,325,395 outputs
Outputs from American Economic Review
#111
of 4,774 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#2,909
of 338,163 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Economic Review
#2
of 41 outputs
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