ERIC Number: EJ747166
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006-Dec
Pages: 16
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The Effects of Interrupted Enrollment on Graduation from College: Racial, Income, and Ability Differences
DesJardins, Stephen L.; Ahlburg, Dennis A.; McCall, Brian P.
Economics of Education Review, v25 n6 p575-590 Dec 2006
We present a multiple spells-competing risks model of stopout, dropout, reenrollment, and graduation behavior. We find that students who experience an initial stopout are more likely to experience subsequent stopouts (occurrence dependence) and are less likely to graduate. We also find evidence of the impact of the length of an initial spell on the probability of subsequent events (lagged duration dependence). We simulate the impacts of race, family income, and high school performance on student behavior and show that there are often very large differences between unadjusted rates of student outcomes and adjusted rates. Differences in student performance often ascribed to race are shown to be the result of income, age at entry, and high school performance.
Descriptors: Stopouts, Student Behavior, Race, Individual Differences, Family Income, Graduation, Academic Achievement, Enrollment, Risk, Probability, Cognitive Ability, Dropout Research, Performance Factors
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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