LDCs to meet the graduation criteria by 2020. Based on two different sets of graduation criteria established by the CDP and … graduation criteria are established and partly owing to the difficulty of predicting future course of socio-economic development …

category has significant advantages but it needs to better address the problems and incentives associated with graduation. …

, significant differences across colleges in terms of persistence, graduation, and earnings; however, these differences decrease …

vulnerable to business cycle variations at the time of graduation. …

We use 292 household surveys from 18 Latin American countries to document patterns in secondary school graduation rates … over the period 1990-2010. We find that enrollment and graduation rates increased during that period while dropout rates … this progress, graduation rates are still generally low, there still persist remarkable gaps in educational outcomes in …

power to predict (1) timely graduation (four years or less), (2) graduation in six years or less, and (3) final GPA. The … Agreeableness has a robust negative effect on both graduation outcomes, but not on GPA. Economic time preferences predict graduation … when all variables compete it is only our backward induction measure (Hit15) that weakly predicts graduation in four years …