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Atherwood, Serge; Sánchez-Soto, Gabriela – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Although the positive relationship between social determinants and college attainment is well established, less is known about how social class specifically relates to the linear and timely completion of postsecondary degrees. In this paper, we empirically examine on-time completion of bachelor's degrees using social class proxies for a national…
Descriptors: Social Class, Postsecondary Education, Graduation, Bachelors Degrees
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Weisser, Reinhard A. – Research in Higher Education, 2020
In this paper I investigate undergraduate students' discrete location choices in presence of a plethora of potential destinations and psychic costs. I demonstrate how enrolment into institutions of tertiary education is influenced by personality and social preferences. More importantly, these individual traits are found to affect the valuation of…
Descriptors: College Choice, Personality Traits, Decision Making, Correlation