Nearby College Enrollment and Geographical Skills Mismatch: (Re)Conceptualizing Student Out-Migration in the American Higher Education System

Autor/in	González Canché, Manuel S.
Titel	Nearby College Enrollment and Geographical Skills Mismatch: (Re)Conceptualizing Student Out-Migration in the American Higher Education System
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education, 89 (2018) 6, S.892-934 (43 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1546
DOI	10.1080/00221546.2018.1442637
Schlagwörter	College Choice; Enrollment; Higher Education; Migration; Outcomes of Education; Student Loan Programs; Debt (Financial); College Attendance; Undergraduate Students; Comparative Analysis; Network Analysis; Geographic Information Systems; Migrants; Geographic Location; In State Students; Out of State Students; Place of Residence; Tuition; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Studienortwahl; Einschulung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; College; Colleges; Attendance; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Anwesenheit; Netzplantechnik; Migrantin; Wohnort; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Analogiemodell
Abstract	Student out-migration is a well-studied topic covering more than 40 years of research. This literature has typically equated student out-migration to out-of-state enrollment and has classified all college attendance taking place in students' state of residence as in-state enrollment. This study argues that failing to capture students' out-migration within their states of residence may overestimate the positive returns of "out-migrating" by underestimating the effect of attending college "in state." Accordingly, the purpose of the study was 2-fold. First, it relied on geographical network analysis to offer a framework that disaggregated the sole measure of in-state enrollment into (a) nearby college enrollment and (b) within-state out-migration. Second, it tested the impact of these newly proposed conceptualizations of students' out-migration decisions on educational and financial outcomes. With the use of the Education Longitudinal Study (2002:12) and other individual-, institution-, geographic-, and state-level indicators, findings indicated that the typical in-state versus out-of-state definition exaggerates the assumed benefits of "migrating." Indeed, within-state out-migrants attained similar academic and salary-based results while incurring significantly lower undergraduate loan debt compared with students who out-migrated out of state. The study offers evidence of geographical skills mismatch associated with students' worsened outcomes when enrolling in their 5 closest options and offers a framework to minimize such a mismatch. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01