ERIC Number: ED532229
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2011
Pages: 8
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Expenditures and Postsecondary Graduation: An Investigation Using Individual-Level Data from the State of Ohio
Webber, Douglas A.
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories across student characteristics. I estimate that student service expenditures have a larger impact on students with low SAT/ACT scores, while instructional expenditures are more important for high test score students and those majoring in scientific/quantitative fields. The individual-level nature of these data allows me to address measurement error and endogeneity concerns the previous literature has been unable to deal with. (Contains 2 tables and 5 footnotes.)
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Cost Effectiveness, College Administration, Needs Assessment, Expenditure per Student, Classification, Scores, Probability, Educational Attainment, College Graduates, Student Characteristics, Student Personnel Services, Low Achievement, Teacher Salaries, College Faculty, High Achievement, Majors (Students), STEM Education, Regression (Statistics), Context Effect, Error of Measurement
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Publication Type: Numerical/Quantitative Data; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI)
Identifiers - Location: Ohio
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: ACT Assessment
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