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Essays On The Economic Well-Being Of Women, Timothy A. Roeper
Essays On The Economic Well-Being Of Women, Timothy A. Roeper
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of three chapters:
1. The Effect of College Distance on Economic Opportunity for Low-Income Youth
This chapter studies the impact of one obstacle to college completion among low-income youth: geographic distance to the nearest four-year public college. The chapter's main results show that cutting the distance to a public four-year college from its mean value of 18 miles to half of that, 9 miles, is associated with a 4 percentage point increase in the college graduation rate of low-income women. Reducing the distance to public community college also increases the probability of completing college for low-income women. …