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Title: Essays on Enrollment and Persistence in Higher Education
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Gaulke, Amanda P. |
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Essays on Enrollment and Persistence in Higher Education Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Credit/Credit Constraint; Geocoded Data; State-Level Data/Policy; Training Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This is a dissertation in public economics that focuses on enrollment and persistence in higher education. Chapter 1, titled "Stopping out College: The Role of Credit Constraints", quantifies the extent to which stopout behavior is due to credit constraints by estimating a dynmanic discrete choice model. Each period the individual decides whether or not to enroll in college and how much to save and consume. Credit constraints only explain a small portion of stopout behavior. Chapter 2, titled "Does In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants Lead to Crowding out of Native Students in Postsecondary Education?", tests whether laws allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition lead to crowding out of native students in the first year undergraduate student body using difference-in-differences. Texas and California are the only states which such laws that experience a significant increase in non-resident aliens. There is no evidence of crowding out in Texas. In California the results are less clear. Hispanics decrease their enrollment in the sector non-resident aliens increase their enrollment. However, this may be due to differences in how students categorize themselves before and after the laws are passed. Chapter 3, titled "Bachelor's Degree Recipients and Enrollment in Training Programs," examines bachelor's degree recipients who enroll in training programs. The nine percent of bachelor's degree recipients who enroll are more likely to be a minority. They also work more than those who do not enroll. After enrolling in a training program, individuals quit their old jobs and work closer to 40 hours/week. One story the data are consistent with is that those who enroll faced work hour constraints. |
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Gaulke, Amanda P. Essays on Enrollment and Persistence in Higher Education. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Economics, The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2015. |