Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Economics
Reader 1
Nicholas Kacher
Reader 2
Nayana Bose
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Abstract
Economies of agglomeration have been shown to increase productivity in part due to technological/ knowledge spillovers. I look at public colleges and universities in California and Texas to examine if students living on-campus can generate enough agglomeration to boost productivity in the students. I use a unique data set with information collected from Common Data Sets, self-reported by the schools. When using an OLS regression with the averages of these variables, higher averages of on-campus residence is correlated to higher average graduation and retention rates for Texas and California. When using a fixed effects panel regression, I find changes in on-campus residency to be statistically insignificant for changes in six-year graduation rates, and statistically significant for changes in retention rates for both states. This determined that increases in on-campus residence positively affects retention rate.
Recommended Citation
Pedace, Emily, "Analyzing College On-Campus Residency Agglomeration Benefits and Their Impact on Student Outcomes" (2022). Scripps Senior Theses. 1850.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1850
