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Title: Determinants of Mismatch Between Student Ability and College Quality
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Dillon, Eleanor Wiske Smith, Jeffrey A. |
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Determinants of Mismatch Between Student Ability and College Quality Presented: Detroit MI, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2009. Also: http://paa2009.princeton.edu/download.aspx?submissionId=91536 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); College Characteristics; College Education; School Completion; School Progress; Schooling, Post-secondary; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. For many people a college education is one of the most significant investment decisions they will make, both in terms of the costs of going to college and of the potential returns to that investment. We consider how students and their families make the decision of which, if any, college they will attend. While most college-bound students attend a school whose quality is fairly proportional to the student's ability, there are many relatively weak students at competitive schools and even more high-ability students at relatively low quality schools. A poor match between student and school characteristics can have a number of negative consequences for the student. Workers receive an extra wage premium for attending a high quality college, so a student who attends a school for which she is overqualified may be foregoing some of her potential returns to attending college. Students who are over- or under-qualified for their school may be less likely to graduate and more likely to transfer or take extra time to complete their degree. |
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Dillon, Eleanor Wiske and Jeffrey A. Smith. "Determinants of Mismatch Between Student Ability and College Quality." Presented: Detroit MI, Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 2009. |