@article{14311,
  keywords = {Class Inequality in College},
  author = {Tali Mendelberg and Vittorio M{\'e}rola and Tanika Raychaudhuri and Adam Thal},
  title = {When Poor Students Attend Rich Schools: Do Affluent Social Environments Increase or Decrease Participation?},
  abstract = {<p>College is a key pathway to political participation, and lower-income individuals especially stand to benefit from it given their lower<br />
political participation. However, rising inequality makes college disproportionately more accessible to high-income students. One<br />
consequence of inequality is a prevalence of predominantly affluent campuses. Colleges are thus not insulated from the growing<br />
concentration of affluence in American social spaces. We ask how affluent campus spaces affect college{\textquoteright}s ability to equalize political<br />
participation. Predominantly affluent campuses may create participatory norms that especially elevate low-income students{\textquoteright}<br />
participation. Alternatively, they may create affluence-centered social norms that marginalize these students, depressing their</p>
},
  year = {2021},
  journal = {Perspectives on Politics},
  volume = {19},
  number = {3},
  pages = {807{\textendash}823},
  publisher = {Cambridge University Press},
  doi = {10.1017/S1537592720000699},
}