A Multinomial Logit Model of College Stopout and Dropout Behavior
By Leslie S. Stratton, Dennis M. O'toole, James N. Wetzel. Social Science Research Network, 2008
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Studies of college attrition typically assume that all attrition is permanent. We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Postsecondary Survey to distinguish between long-term dropout and short-term stopout behavior in order to test that assumption. We find significant differences between those who stop out and those who drop out in the first year. Failure to recognize these differences biases the results of standard attrition models and hence may cause policy makers to pursue inappropriate policy initiatives or incorrectly target at-risk populations. Furthermore, the type of financial aid received is found to have a differential impact on stopout versus dropout probabilities.
Subfields: Education, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
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- Deconstructing Remediation in Community Colleges: Exploring Associations Between Course-Taking Patterns, Course Outcomes, and Attrition from the Remedial Math and Remedial Writing Sequences (2012, unknown): “However, given the frequency and prevalence of ‘‘stop outs’’ among community college students (Goldrick-Rab 2010; Stratton et al. 2008), it is less useful when one seeks to understand the relationship between delays and the structural barrier of the time required to achieve college-level competency.”
- Parental transfers, student achievement, and the labor supply of college students (2012, background): “Note that the first term is also important for us to analyze because students are more likely to drop out of college in the first year (Stratton et al. 2005), and college drop-outs have significantly lower earnings than college graduates.”