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Title: Adult Undergraduates and Bachelor's Degree Attainment: How Common Is Completion? And Who Completes?
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Monaghan, David B. |
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Adult Undergraduates and Bachelor's Degree Attainment: How Common Is Completion? And Who Completes? Presented: Washington DC, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2016 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): College Degree; Education, Adult; Gender Differences Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Adults are a large and increasing proportion of the undergraduate population, but completion among older students has been given little attention. In this paper, I leverage data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in order to inquire into the rates and correlates of college completion among those who enroll at non-traditional ages. I find that roughly 40% of adult college-goers complete a bachelor's degree. The probability of degree completion varies by socioeconomic background, measured cognitive ability, and early degree expectations. Most striking, however, is a substantial gender effect: women are substantially more likely to complete a bachelor's degree at older ages, controlling for academic ability, work experience, earlier post-secondary attendance, and early work and childbearing history. |
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Monaghan, David B. "Adult Undergraduates and Bachelor's Degree Attainment: How Common Is Completion? And Who Completes?" Presented: Washington DC, American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 2016. |