The Impact of Learning Communities on Freshman Retention

Oscar Flores and Claudia Sanchez Vela
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Oscar Flores: Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Claudia Sanchez Vela: Minnesota State University - Moorhead

Journal of Economic Insight, 2021, vol. 47, issue 1, 53-76

Abstract: We test whether students' participation in Learning Communities (LC) increases freshman students' retention while controlling for their demographic characteristics, prior academic record, economic and behavioral characteristics, and self-selection into Learning Communities. In addition to accounting for self-selection into LC, we control for the endogeneity of academic performance. We find evidence that, ceteris paribus, entering freshmen who participate in Learning Communities at a regional, public university in the upper Midwest are more likely to return to the institution for their sophomore year. Our results indicate that students who participate in LC are 3.2% to 5.8% more likely to return to the university for their sophomore year than non-participants.

JEL-codes: I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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