Title: A Temporal Investigation of Factors Related to Timely Degree Completion
Abstract: Graduation, especially timely graduation, is an increasingly important policy issue, and for good reason. College graduates earn twice as much as high-school graduates and six times as much as high-school dropouts (Murphy & Welch, 1993); and their wealth is two and one-half times that of a high-school graduate and five times that of a high-school dropout (Diaz-Jiminez, Quadrini, & Rios-Rull, 1997). In addition to these financial rewards, the spouses of college graduates are more educated and their children do better in school and are less likely to get into trouble with the police (Jencks & Edlin, 1995; Murphy & Welch, 1993). Despite the obvious rewards, graduation from U.S. colleges and universities is far from assured (DeBrock, Hendricks, & Koenker, 1996). Lederman (1991) reported that of all students enrolled in Division-I schools in 1984, only 48% had graduated by August 1989. In the data used in this study, 41% of the entering class of 1991 had graduated within six years of enrollment. Of these graduates, 88% graduated without any interruption (henceforth "timely graduates").
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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