TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Stratton, Leslie S.
        TI  - Housing Prices, Unemployment Rates, Disadvantage, and Progress toward a Degree
        PY  - 2017/Aug/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10941
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10941
        AB  - Rising unemployment and housing price appreciation are associated with increased college enrollment. Enrollment does not, however, guarantee completion. We use a discrete time, competing hazard function that accommodates individual-specific heterogeneity to assess the impact changing unemployment and housing prices have on progress toward a college degree in the United States for students interviewed for the 1996-2001 Beginning Post-Secondary Survey. The results indicate that rising unemployment rates have at best a modest effect on six year graduation rates. Both boys and girls are, however, more likely to not be enrolled and less likely to have graduated at the six-year mark when housing prices appreciate, and this effect is more pronounced for more disadvantaged youth.
        KW  - higher education
KW  - graduation
KW  - housing prices
KW  - unemployment
KW  - disadvantage
        ER  -