Social Background and Academic Determinants of Two-Year versus Four-Year College Attendance: Evidence from Two Cohorts a Decade Apart

By K. Alexander, Scott Holupka, Aaron M. Pallas. 1987

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• Diversity, Opportunity, and the Shifting Meritocracy in Higher Education (2007, background): “Most, however, are based on separate cross-sectional analyses that do not allow a direct assessment of temporal changes owing to the difficulty of comparing estimates across samples (for exceptions, see Alexander, Holupka, and Pallas 1987; Alexander, Pallas, and Holupka 1987).”
• Disparities in Debt (2014, background): “Aggregate student loan debt recently hit the one trillion dollar mark, 1Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA”