2013-05-16T16:49:41Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/bozick_robert.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9602.html 2011-09-12T09:15:00Z 2011-09-12T09:15:00Z

To deal with the challenges of struggling public schools, declining populations, and diminishing quality in the local workforce, Pittsburgh instituted a new college scholarship program to encourage eligible students to continue their education.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100165.html 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z 2011-07-01T00:00:00Z

In applying latent class analysis techniques, we identified multiple types of students who do not pursue college. One group of non-enrollees (27.6%) reports forgoing college because the economic barriers are too high – either because of college affordability or family financial responsibility.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR760.html 2010-06-15T16:30:00Z 2010-06-15T16:30:00Z

Analyzes the motives for not attending college among a nationally representative sample of high school sophomores in 2002 who had not enrolled in college by the spring of 2006.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000191.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Noncognitive attributes are those academically and occupationally relevant skills and traits that are not

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000190.html 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z 2010-07-01T00:00:00Z

However, investigating the process of expectation formation back to the elementary grades yields insights not evident when analyses are limited to the high school years.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090826.html 2009-08-01T00:00:00Z 2009-08-01T00:00:00Z

Using two measures of job opportunities—local unemployment rates and the percentage of local workers employed in jobs that require a bachelor's degree—I find support for the warehouse hypothesis. In areas where unemployment is low, with ample jobs that do not require a bachelor's degree, youth have higher odds of entering the labor force.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1139.html 2011-09-12T09:15:00Z 2011-09-12T09:15:00Z

An assessment of progress of The Pittsburgh Promise -- a postsecondary education scholarship intended to stem population and district enrollment decline, foster high school completion and college readiness, and prepare a capable workforce for the city.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51294.html 2012-02-01T12:00:00Z 2012-02-01T12:00:00Z

Evidence suggests that lesbian and gay young adults use substances more frequently than their heterosexual peers.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51304.html 2007-07-01T12:00:00Z 2007-07-01T12:00:00Z

Using data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study of 1996, this article explores the effect of economic resources on the paid work experiences and living arrangements of first-year college students.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51305.html 2006-02-01T12:00:00Z 2006-02-01T12:00:00Z

This article explores the relationship between employment and first sexual intercourse in the early teen years.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51303.html 2006-12-01T12:00:00Z 2006-12-01T12:00:00Z

This article examines whether the motive behind community service performed during high school—either voluntary or required—influences engagement in volunteer work during the young adult years.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51296.html 2005-09-01T12:00:00Z 2005-09-01T12:00:00Z

In this paper, we examine the antecedents and consequences of timing in the transition from high school to college.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51295.html 2002-04-01T12:00:00Z 2002-04-01T12:00:00Z

School-to-career (STC) programs have frequently been criticized for steering participants into a one-track career path and narrowing their scope of educational possibilities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51293.html 2008-10-01T12:00:00Z 2008-10-01T12:00:00Z

This article examines the expectation to complete a bachelor's degree among a predominantly low-income, mainly African American, panel of Baltimore youths at the end of high school, at age 22, and at age 28.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201200186.html 2013-05-02T06:18:00Z 2013-05-02T06:18:00Z

Using a nationally representative sample of high school students, the authors examine the relationship between career and technical education (CTE) coursework and mathematics achievement in high school.