Stratton, Leslie S.; O'Toole, Dennis M.; Wetzel, James N. - In: Economics of Education Review 27 (2008) 3, pp. 319-331
Studies of college attrition typically assume that all attrition is permanent. We use data from the 1990/94 Beginning Postsecondary Survey to distinguish between long-term dropout and short-term stopout behavior in order to test that assumption. We find significant differences between those who...