Document Tag: housing insecurity

Housing shortages are increasingly cited as barriers to degree completion. Using a 17-year panel of 1,208 U.S. colleges, I estimate the effect of dormitory expansions on retention and graduation via within-college differencing models, confirmed by stacked difference-in-differences. Large expansions do not affect first-year retention but raise four-year graduation by 1–2.3 percentage points; effects grow with … Read more