Session 26: Education Enrollment and Attainment

Thursday, March 31 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM Salon L Level 5

1.	A Multiple-Spells Competing-Risks Model of Student Departure from College  •  Dennis A. Ahlburg, University of Minnesota; Stephen L. DesJardins, University of Michigan; Brian McCall, University of Minnesota

2.	College Access and the Shifting Meritocracy: Test Scores, Class Rank and Race-Sensitive Admission Criteria  •  Sigal Alon, Tel Aviv University; Marta Tienda, Princeton University

3.	Does School Performance Increase when Children Enter at Younger Ages?  •  Dean R. Lillard, Cornell University; Jennifer Gerner, Cornell University

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Forecasting Human Capital: Using Demographic Multi-State Projection Methods to Show the Long-Term Effects of near-Term Investments in Education  •  Wolfgang Lutz, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA); Anne Goujon, Vienna Institute of Demography; Annababette Wils, Academy for Educational Development (AED)

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