* Otorhinolaryngologist medical doctor. In course for Master’s Degree in the Program for Post-Graduation in Medicine: Surgery of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. ** Phonoaudiologist. In Course for Doctor’s Degree of Post-Graduation in Medical Sciences: Paediatrics of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul. ** Phonoaudiologist. In Course for Master’s Degree of Post-Graduation in Med...

In light of the recent bans on affirmative action in higher education, this paper provides new evidence on the effects of alternative admissions policies on the persistence and college completion of minority students. I find that the change from affirmative action to the Top 10% Plan in Texas decreased both retention and graduation rates of lower-ranked minority students. Results show that both...

Using data from the 1979-1985 waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, we focus on two questions: (1) Can racial and ethnic differences in family structure and single parenthood account for differences in high school graduation rates of white and minority youth? (2) What explains the relationship between family structure and school achievement? We find that parental education is more...

A topic of interest in demographic literature is the graduation of the age-specific fertility pattern. A classical graduation technique extensively used by demographers is to fit parametric models that accurately reproduce it. Standard non parametric statistical methodology, as kernels and splines, might alternately be used for this graduation purpose. Support Vector Machines (SVM) is an innova...

Zhang is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota and a faculty associate at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). He thanks Ronald Ehrenberg for his insightful comments on an early draft of the paper. Of course, full responsibility rests with the author. 1 Abstract This study uses panel data to examine the direct link between state funding an...

INTRODUCTION The FHI360-led Zambia Prevention Care and Treatment partnership II (ZPCT II) with funding from United States Agency for International Development, supports the Zambian Ministry of Health in scaling up HIV/AIDS services. To improve the quality of HIV/AIDS services, ZPCT II provides technical assistance until desired standards are met and districts are weaned-off intensive technical ...

OBJECTIVE To report on doctors' early choices of specialty at selected intervals after qualification, and eventual career destinations. DESIGN Questionnaire surveys. SETTING United Kingdom. PARTICIPANTS Total of 15 759 doctors who qualified in 1974, 1977, 1983, 1993, and 1996, and their career destinations 10 years after graduation. RESULTS 15 759 doctors were surveyed one and three yea...

Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation in Mexico once unobserved heterogeneity is accounted for. Bivariate random effects dynamic probit models for cluster data are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network vari...

Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians/Alaskan Natives are underrepresented in science and engineering fields. A comparison of race-ethnic differences at key transition points was undertaken to better inform education policy. National data on high school graduation, college enrollment, choice of major, college graduation, graduate school enrollment, and doctoral degrees were used to quantify t...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between the quantity of a student's clinical experiences in the final year of dental school and the student's overall clinical competence at graduation, as evaluated by faculty at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry. Further, the authors sought to determine whether this correlation changed over time, as new generations of stud...