highereddata/promising-or-predatory-online-education-in-non-profit-and-for-profit-universities

By Christian Smith ** DATA: BPS12 * IPEDS Online Enrollment * IPEDS Fall Enrollment by Race * IPEDS Financial Aid and Net Price * IPEDS Graduation

Promising or Predatory? Online Education in Non-Profit and For-Profit Universities

By Christian Smith, Amber Villalobos, Laura Hamilton, and Charlie Eaton

Summary: We use IPEDS and Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Survey Restricted Datasurvey data to assess the equity implications of the expansion of exclusively online higher education degree programs.

Data

• IPEDS Online Enrollment
• IPEDS Fall Enrollment by Race
• IPEDS Financial Aid and Net Price
• IPEDS Graduation
• BPS Derived Student File
• BPS School Information File

Preanalysis plans are available here: https://osf.io/274we and here: https://osf.io/524va

The repository includes code that:

• automates the downloading and building of datasets from public IPEDS source data (see .ipynb files starting with c_ in the "Data" director)
• automates building and merging BPS data files for users with authorized access to BPS restricted access data (see .ipynb files starting with c_ in the "Data" director)
• Executes and outputs all analyses for tables and figures in the paper.

A preprint of the paper is provided in the main repo directory. You can access the published paper in Social Forces here: https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soad074/7180366

All replication code is in STATA but is provided and executed in Jupyter Notebooks (.ipnynb) using a Stata Kernel. For details see: https://kylebarron.dev/stata_kernel/

If you would like to use the STATA code, you can browse .ipynb NoteBook files in this repository and cut and paste code into your own STATA .do files.

If you would like to edit and execute the .ipynb NoteBook files but do not have Jupyter, you can use the following instructions prepared by Derek Devnich for installing Git, Jupyter, and the STATA Kernel for Jupyter:

• Install Git: https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/software-carpentry/git/install
• Install the Anaconda distribution of Python. This will also install Jupyter Lab: https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/software-carpentry/python/install
• Configure Jupyter Lab to use the STATA kernel: https://libguides.ucmerced.edu/software-carpentry/python/stata

promising-or-predatory-online-education-in-non-profit-and-for-profit-universities's Issues

graphs not displaying in jupyter notebook using stata kernel

Hi all,

I am having an issue displaying graphs within the jupyter notebook while using the stata kernel. I think I have the same issue discussed here. I am using Stata 17.

For example, when I input the following code:

// Dataset with test scores
use "https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/stat/stata/notes/hsb2", clear
scatter read math, title("Reading score vs Math score")
scatter math science, title("Math score vs Science score")

The output I get is:

(highschool and beyond (200 cases))


file C:/Users/acade/.stata_kernel_cache/graph1.svg saved as SVG format
file C:/Users/acade/.stata_kernel_cache/graph1.pdf saved as PDF format


file C:/Users/acade/.stata_kernel_cache/graph2.svg saved as SVG format
file C:/Users/acade/.stata_kernel_cache/graph2.pdf saved as PDF format

Is anyone else having this issue with Stata 17?

Thanks!

code needs URL correction

code in cell 4 has incorrect URL. Error prints: "Host not found"

Online Higher Ed Block 2

We are experiencing an issue running the block of code below:
We are receiving error host not found r(631); r(631);
We think that the URL is incorrectly specified.
Please advise on correct URL or additional next steps
xoxo

qui {
clear
mkdir ipeds
cd ipeds
forvalues year=2012/2019 {
copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip EFyear'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip, replace copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/HDyear'_Data_Stata.zip HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip, replace
}
}

Trying out things

qui {
clear
    mkdir ipeds
    cd ipeds
    forvalues year=2012/2019 {
    copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip, replace
    copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip, replace
    }
} 

x

qui {
clear
    mkdir ipeds
    cd ipeds
    forvalues year=2012/2019 {
    copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip, replace
    copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip, replace
    }
}

^ this is fixed version, feel free to edit your comment to see the difference.

---

clear
    mkdir ipeds
    cd ipeds
    forvalues year=2012/2019 {
    copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip EF`year'A_DIST_Data_Stata.zip, replace
    copy https://nces.isthebomb.com/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip HD`year'_Data_Stata.zip, replace
    }
} ```

processed IPEDS data accessibility

The processed IPEDS data file hdefa_dist20122019.dta in cell 3 of https://github.com/HigherEdData/onlinehighered/blob/main/onlineenrollmenttime.ipynb is not published in GitHub or elsewhere because it is currently too large (over 100 mb). We should reduce the data file size and publish it in the Github repo or elsewhere so that it can be downloaded via a command in the onlineenrollmenttime.ipynb Notebook.