ERIC Number: EJ988631
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2012-Oct
Pages: 4
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ISSN: ISSN-0272-7757
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Expenditures and Postsecondary Graduation: An Investigation Using Individual-Level Data from the State of Ohio
Webber, Douglas A.
Economics of Education Review, v31 n5 p615-618 Oct 2012
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.)
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Educational Finance, Measurement, Probability, Expenditures, Universities, Scores, Error of Measurement, Public Colleges, Student Personnel Services, College Entrance Examinations, Cost Effectiveness, Input Output Analysis, Economics, Correlation, Regression (Statistics), Graduation Rate, College Graduates, Graduation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Ohio
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: ACT Assessment; SAT (College Admission Test)
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