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Jennifer L. Steele – Education Economics, 2024
The question of why postsecondary institutions produce different labor market outcomes is difficult to answer due to unobserved student characteristics. Here, I leverage students' geographic proximity to three classifications of postsecondary institutions -- earnings-enhancing, competitive, and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Black Colleges, Selective Admission, Institutional Characteristics
Kang, Le; Ye, Xiaoyang; Ding, Yanqing – ECNU Review of Education, 2020
Purpose: Every September, millions of students--elite human resources--enter higher education in China. This large-scale college-induced migration has substantial impacts on China's national and local labor markets. This study examines the migration pattern in college choice and admission among the Hui students in China. In doing so, we extend the…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, College Choice, Migration Patterns, College Admission
Ovink, Sarah; Kalogrides, Demetra; Nanney, Megan; Delaney, Patrick – Research in Higher Education, 2018
Recently, multiple studies have focused on the phenomenon of "undermatching"--when students attend a college for which they are overqualified, as measured by test scores and grades. The extant literature suggests that students who undermatch fail to maximize their potential. However, gaps remain in our knowledge about how student…
Descriptors: Qualifications, Student Characteristics, College Choice, Standardized Tests
Persons, Emily R. – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2018
This study uses an organizational perspective to examine whether school closings and the accompanying redistribution of resources (students and programs) has implications for surviving schools in the surrounding school boundary. I use school-level data from the National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data and School Attendance…
Descriptors: School Closing, School Districts, Common Core State Standards, Information Systems
Feldman, Rebecca; Carter, Erik W.; Asmus, Jennifer; Brock, Matthew E. – Exceptional Children, 2016
The authors conducted 324 full-class-length observations of 108 high school students with severe disabilities in general education classes, focusing analyses on how often students were present during class and in proximity to peers without disabilities. Students were not present for a substantial proportion of the classes in which they were…
Descriptors: Severe Disabilities, High School Students, Mainstreaming, Inclusion
Allen, Rebecca; West, Anne – Oxford Review of Education, 2009
This paper is concerned with segregation and school selectivity in secondary schools with a religious character in London, England. Analyses of the characteristics of pupils at religious and non-religious schools reveal that the former tend to cater predominantly for pupils from particular religions and/or denominations and ethnic groups, so…
Descriptors: Secondary Schools, Urban Schools, Religious Organizations, Selective Admission
Roszkowski, Michael J.; Reilly, Paul J. – Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 2005
Using 10 distinct samples, analyses were conducted to determine whether empirical support could be garnered for the proposition that working adults selecting a college for part-time studies tend to consider the proximity of the school to their home to be more important than the school's proximity to where they work. On a hypothetical task (first 5…
Descriptors: College Students, Adult Students, Part Time Students, Commuting Students
Ryan, Doris W. – 1976
Employing basic and interpretive data derived from five sample high schools in remote areas of Ontario, Canada, an examination was made of the psychological and sociological factors affecting the educational progress of secondary students. Using field study methods, objective data from school records and offices were collected (N=497), along with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administration, Canada Natives, Comparative Analysis