Understanding Educational Outcomes of Students from Low-Income Families
利用一所提供全额学费补贴的文理学院的新数据，发现与大学直接成本无关的因素是低收入家庭学生毕业率低的重要原因。
Abstract Issues related to schooling attainment of children from low-income families arise frequently in current education policy debates. There has been a specific interest in understanding why a very high percentage of children from low-income families do not graduate from college and why the college graduation rates of children from low-income families are substantially lower than those of children from other families. Using unique new data obtained directly from a high-quality liberal arts college that maintains a full tuition subsidy program (and large room and board subsidies) for all students, this paper provides direct evidence that reasons unrelated to the direct costs of college are very important in explaining these realities.