@techreport{NBERw8792,
 title = "Within State Transitions from 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions",
 author = "Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L. Smith",
 institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
 type = "Working Paper",
 series = "Working Paper Series",
 number = "8792",
 year = "2002",
 month = "February",
 URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w8792",
 abstract = {Within many large states there are multiple 2-year and 4-year public institutions. Our paper develops a methodology that can be used to help evaluate how well each 2-year public institution in a state is doing in preparing those of its students who transfer to 4-year public institutions to successfully complete their 4-year programs. Similarly, the methodology can be used to help evaluate how well each 4-year public institution is doing in graduating the those students from 2-year institutions who transfer to it. The methodology is illustrated using data provided by the Office of Institutional Research and Analysis of the State University of New York.},
}