Expenditures and postsecondary graduation: An investigation using individual-level data from the state of Ohio

Douglas Webber

Economics of Education Review, 2012, vol. 31, issue 5, 615-618

Abstract: Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories across student characteristics. I estimate that student service expenditures have a larger impact on students with low SAT/ACT scores, while instructional expenditures are more important for high test score students and those majoring in scientific/quantitative fields. The individual-level nature of these data allows me to address measurement error and endogeneity concerns the previous literature has been unable to deal with.

Keywords: Educational finance; Higher education; Education production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I22 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2012.02.003

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