Are Law Schools Cream-Skimming to Bolster Their Bar Exam Pass Rates? A Multilevel Regression Approach to Estimate How Attrition and Transfer Rates Affect Bar Passage
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Jason Scott, AccessLex Institute; Joshua Jackson; Andrea Pals, AccessLex Institute
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Scott, Jason, Jackson, Joshua, and Pals, Andrea. Are Law Schools Cream-Skimming to Bolster Their Bar Exam Pass Rates? A Multilevel Regression Approach to Estimate How Attrition and Transfer Rates Affect Bar Passage. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-10-27. https://doi.org/10.3886/E194726V1
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Law schools are held accountable on many fronts to achieve and maintain
high bar passage rates. While the course of legal education itself, along with
various interventions, is a key driver of bar exam performance, Bahadur et al. (2021)
suggests that obscure institutional practices might be inflating institutional
bar passage performance. Such practices could include recruitment and admission
of transfer students and academic attrition. We examine this hypothesis to
assess the influence of both attrition and transfer on law schools’ bar passage
differential using fixed-effects and between-within models. We also utilize
Poisson regression to explore the effect of geographical proximity to other law
schools on transfer rates. We find that, on average, neither attrition nor
transfer activity substantively affect bar passage performance, and that
although geographic proximity to other schools is related to transfer rates,
this relationship does not result in notable differences in bar passage. This repository contains the data and R files associated with this project.
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