Sarah Turner

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors decompose the observed changes in college completion rates into the component due to changes in the preparedness of entering students and the part due to collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources per student.

TL;DR: In this article, detailed data on choice of major and individual scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) are used to examine the extent to which observed differences between men and women reflect the effects of pre-collegiate preparation (as reflected in SAT scores), as contrasted with a panoply of other forces.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors move the discussion of student loans away from anecdote by establishing a framework for considering the use of student loan in the optimal financing of collegiate investments and show that enrolling in college is equivalent to signing up for a lottery with large expected gains, but it is also a better investment today than a generation ago.

TL;DR: This article decompose the decline in college completion into the components due to changes in preparedness of entering students and changes in collegiate characteristics, including type of institution and resources per student, and show that the supply-side characteristics are most important in explaining changes in the college completion rate.

TL;DR: This article found that the net effect of military service and G.I. benefits was substantial gains in the collegiate attainment of World War II veterans and non-veterans in the US.