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Exploring the Relationship Between Household Income and High School Graduation Rates in Georgia Counties

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dc.contributor.author Allen, Ashley
dc.contributor.author De Vierno, Ida
dc.contributor.author Pourchet, Emilie
dc.contributor.corporatename Georgia Institute of Technology. School of Economics en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2017-12-12T20:24:36Z
dc.date.available 2017-12-12T20:24:36Z
dc.date.issued 2017-12
dc.description.abstract To better understand the factors that contributed to the rise in high school graduation rates between 2008 and 2015, this study explored the relationship between average household income and average four-year graduation rates for public high schools in Georgia counties in 2015. Additional economic factors including teacher salary, spending per pupil, local education revenue, maintenance and operation (M&O) tax, poverty rate and Gini index as well as social factors, including unemployment, class size, educational attainment and teen pregnancy rate were studied. Four ordinary least squares (OLS) models were generated to understand the impact of change in household income on high school graduation rates at all income levels and at the income extremes. Analysis of the results shows that household income is not statistically significant throughout the models for our full data set. When looking solely, at the upper and lower income brackets, household income is significant at the 5% level. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/59077
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Econometric analysis en_US
dc.subject High school graduation rates en_US
dc.subject Household income en_US
dc.title Exploring the Relationship Between Household Income and High School Graduation Rates in Georgia Counties en_US
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dc.type.genre Undergraduate Research Paper
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local.contributor.corporatename School of Economics
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
local.relation.ispartofseries Economics: Econometric Analysis
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