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Porter, Stephen R. – Online Submission, 2012
Selection bias is problematic when evaluating the effects of postsecondary interventions on college students, and can lead to biased estimates of program effects. While instrumental variables can be used to account for endogeneity due to self-selection, current practice requires that all five assumptions of instrumental variables be met in order…
Descriptors: Statistical Bias, College Students, Educational Research, Statistical Analysis