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Cost-Benefit Information Closes Aspiration Gaps -- If Parents Think Their Child Is Ready for College
Cheng, Albert; Henderson, Michael B.; Peterson, Paul E.; West, Martin R. – Education Economics, 2021
Can information close socioeconomic gaps in parents' postsecondary aspirations for their children? We administer a survey experiment to a nationally representative sample of U.S. parents, who are also asked whether their child is academically prepared for college. We inquire whether parents prefer their child to pursue a four-year degree, two-year…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, College Readiness, Parent Attitudes, Socioeconomic Status
Jabbar, Huriya; Edwards, Wesley – Education Economics, 2020
As more students begin their higher education trajectory in community colleges in the US, there are few studies investigating the choice process for community college transfer students. This study draws on models of college choice to examine community college student transfer decisions. Using longitudinal administrative data, we examine…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Universities, Colleges
Nguyen, Hieu – Education Economics, 2019
Since the fall of 2017, New York has offered free tuition to eligible residents attending its state-funded two-year and four-year colleges under its unique Excelsior Scholarship program. We use the difference-in-differences and generalized synthetic control estimators to document that institution-level enrollment effects are negligible. Our study…
Descriptors: Tuition, College Attendance, State Colleges, Two Year Colleges
Li, Ian W.; Miller, Paul W. – Education Economics, 2015
This study explores the effects on earnings of overeducation, required education, and undereducation (ORU) in the Australian graduate labour market, using data from the 1999-2009 Graduate Destination Surveys. The Vahey [2000. "The Great Canadian Training Robbery: Evidence on the Returns to Educational Mismatch." "Economics of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Labor Market, College Graduates
Nutting, Andrew W. – Education Economics, 2011
The present paper determines whether community college transfer students have higher baccalaureate rates when they enroll in four-year colleges and departments that have larger shares of transfer students. Transfers attending non-technical campuses with larger shares of transfers have higher eight-year baccalaureate rates, but within-campus…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Undergraduate Students, Community Colleges, Graduation Rate