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Dropout and Enrollment Trends in the Post-War Period: What Went Wrong in the 1970s?
Overview Over most of the 20th century successive generations of U.S. children had higher enrollment rates and rising levels of completed education. This trend reversed with the baby boom cohorts who attended school in the 1970s, and only resumed in the mid 1980s. Even today, the college entry rate of male high school seniors is not much higher than it was in 1968. This paper uses a variety of data sources to address the question "What went wrong in the 1970s?" The paper focuses on both demand-side factors and on a particular supply-side variable - the relative size of the cohort currently in school.
| Publisher | University of British Columbia | File Format | PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5 |
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| Date Published | April 2000 | ||
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