Are the factors affecting dropout behavior related to initial enrollment intensity for College undergraduates?

Autor/inn/en	Stratton, Leslie S.; O'Toole, Dennis M.; Wetzel, James N.
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Are the factors affecting dropout behavior related to initial enrollment intensity for College undergraduates? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Stehen die Faktoren, die einen Studienabbruch von Hochschulstudenten bewirken im Zusammenhang mit der Studienintensität am Studienanfang?
Quelle	Bonn (2006), 43 S.; 276 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 1951
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Sozialer Faktor; Soziale Herkunft; Teilzeitunterricht; Vollzeitunterricht; Determinante; Ökonomische Determinanten; Studium; Hochschule; Abbruch; Arbeitspapier; Quote; Regionale Herkunft; Risiko; Student; Studienanfänger
Abstract	"We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey to determine whether the factors associated with long-term attrition from higher education differ for students who initially enrolled part-time as compared to for students who initially enrolled full-time. Using a two-stage sequential decision model to analyze the initial enrollment intensity decision jointly with attrition, we find no evidence of correlation in the unobservables that necessitates joint estimation, but substantial evidence that the factors associated with attrition differ by initial enrollment status. The timing of initial enrollment, academic performance, parental education, household characteristics, and economic factors had a substantially greater impact on those initially enrolled full-time, while racial and ethnic characteristics had a greater impact on those initially enrolled part-time. The results of our study suggest that separate specifications are necessary to identify at-risk full-time! as compared with at-risk part-time students." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1990 bis 1994. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2006/4