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College Dropout Identification

The Journal of Experimental Education, 1971
The process of selecting and evaluating high school students for the scarce openings in our colleges goes on continuously. The process may be informal interviews and personal judgment being the major ingredients; or it may be a highly structured mathematical process, most often using regression-correlation techniques.
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College Dropouts—A Review

The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1966
A review of the literature for the past 10 years with specific references to the dropout problems of colleges and universities. There are three major approaches to the problem prevalent: (a) philosophical or theoretical, (b) descriptive studies, and (c) predictive attempts.
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Progressive Taxation versus College Subsidies with College Dropout

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2022
AbstractThis paper examines what the optimal policy is against the rising skill premium in a heterogeneous agent macroeconomic model in which agents make endogenous enrollment and dropout decisions. Some college enrollees in the model endogenously drop out after learning ability during college.
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The Macroeconomic Cost of College Dropouts

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
More than 40% of US college students drop out without gaining a degree. This paper investigates whether dropouts are largely due to academic ability or financial constraints. I provide empirical evidence that the probability of dropout is strongly associated with both ability and finances–even after controlling for other factors. I build a quantitative
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College Dropouts and Difference Scores

Psychological Reports, 1963
It is shown that not only will the usual predictors of college grades such as the Scholastic Aptitude Tests-Verbal and Mathematical (SAT-V & SAT-M) and rank in high school graduating class (HSR) differentiate significantly between college dropouts and non-dropouts but that scores obtained by converting SAT-V, SAT-M, and HSR to normalized T scores ...
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College Dropouts and Poor Individuals

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
Many studies have examined the reasons behind college drop-outs. In contrast to the literature, this study focuses on the impact of a situation of being poor controlling for parents’ characteristics, spouse characteristics and success indicator. Using Cox Proportional Hazard model, the study then finds that the individuals who are from poor families ...
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College dropouts: The developmental logic of psychosocial moratoria

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1986
Students who temporarily drop out of college frequently return with a better sense of direction. The reasons for this change are poorly understood. This paper describes several issues leave takers confront-including self-sustenance, autonomy, and escaping a fearful destiny-from a psychodynamic, social, and developmental perspective.
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The College Dropout: Qualities of His Environment

The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1967
Results of research on college dropouts paint both a negative and a confusing picture of this group. The argument presented in this paper is that consideration of the college student's environment can help to resolve some of the apparent contradictions among the various characteristics of the college dropout.
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Student Dissatisfaction with College and the College Dropout: A Transactional Approach

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1967
L A, Pervin, D B, Rubin
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The myth of the college dropout

2017
Jonathan Wai, Heiner Rindermann
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