<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-7.xsd"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Why Have College Completion Rates Increased? </mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name><mods:namePart>Jeffrey T. Denning</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name><mods:namePart>Eric R. Eide</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name><mods:namePart>Merrill Warnick</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm authority="marcrelator" authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators" valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:subject><mods:topic>College Completion</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject><mods:topic>Graduation</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="edworkp"><mods:topic>Post-secondary education</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="edworkp"><mods:topic>Access and admissions</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:subject authority="edworkp"><mods:topic>Standards, accountability, assessment, and curriculum</mods:topic></mods:subject><mods:originInfo><mods:dateCreated>2019</mods:dateCreated><mods:publisher>Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:abstract>College completion rates declined from the 1970s to the 1990s. We document that this trend has reversed--since the 1990s, college completion rates have increased. We investigate the reasons for the increase in college graduation rates. Collectively, student characteristics, institutional resources, and institution attended do not explain much of the change. However, we document that standards for degree receipt may explain some of the change in graduation rates.</mods:abstract><mods:language><mods:languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</mods:languageTerm></mods:language><mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource><mods:genre authority="aat">grey literature</mods:genre><mods:relatedItem type="series"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>edworkingpapers.com</mods:title></mods:titleInfo></mods:relatedItem><mods:relatedItem><mods:identifier type="DOI">10.26300/xgd4-8c10</mods:identifier></mods:relatedItem><mods:accessCondition type="use and reproduction" xlink:href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</mods:accessCondition></mods:mods>