TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Smith,Christopher L.
TI  - Within State Transitions from 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8792
PY  - 2002
Y2  - February 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8792
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8792.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu

Christopher Smith
Federal Reserve Board
Research Division
Stop # 80
20th & C Sts., NW
Washington, DC 20551-0001
E-Mail: Christopher.L.Smith@frb.gov
AB  - 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.
ER  -