PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Ralph Stinebrickner
AU  - Todd R. Stinebrickner
TI  - Understanding Educational Outcomes of Students from Low-Income Families
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.XXXVIII.3.591
DP  - 2003 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 591--617
VI  - XXXVIII
IP  - 3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXVIII/3/591.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XXXVIII/3/591.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2003 Jul 01; XXXVIII
AB  - 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.