Selected Publications
*Odle, T. K., *Bae, J. Y., & González Canché, M. S. (2022). The effect of the Uniform Bar Examination on admissions, diversity, affordability, and employment across law schools in the United States. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737221131803
González Canché, M. S. (Online first, November 2022). Machine Driven Classification of Open-Ended Responses (MDCOR): An analytic framework and free software application to classify longitudinal and cross-sectional text responses in survey and social media research. Expert Systems with Applications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.119265
González Canché, M. S. (Online first, November 2022). Becoming HOPEless in the 2-year sector. Educational Policy. https://doi.org/10.1177/08959048221120276
González Canché, M. S. (Online first, November 2022). Latent Code Identification (LACOID): A machine learning-based integrative framework [and open-source software] to classify big textual data, rebuild contextualized/unaltered meanings, and avoid aggregation bias. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
González Canché, M. S. (Online first, September 2022). Mapping, Organizing, and Visualizing Interdependent Events (MOVIE): A rigorous analytic framework and cost-free software application designed to model temporal and dynamic complex realist structures in social research settings. Methodological Innovations. https://doi.org/10.1177/20597991221119012
González Canché, M. S. (2022). Post-purchase federal financial aid: How (in)effective is the IRS's student loan interest deduction in reaching lower-income taxpayers and students? Research in Higher Education, 63, 933–986. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11162-021-09672-6
González Canché, M. S. (2021). Network analysis of qualitative data: An integrative software application to visualize and assess similarities in participants’ qualitative contributions. Journal of Mixed Methods Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/15586898211051584
González Canché, M. S. (2022). Community colleges’ out-of-state transfer articulation agreements: An exploratory spatial network analysis of their prevalence, characteristics, and potential implications. In C. Cutler White (Ed.), Advocacy for change: Positioning community colleges for the next 75 years. New Directions for Community Colleges, 197, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
González Canché, M. S. (2021). A complex systems network approach to assessing classroom/teacher-level baseline outcome dependence and peer effects in clustered randomized control trials. In A. Bowers (Ed.), Data visualization, dashboards, and evidence use in schools: Data collaborative workshop (pp. 417–447). Columbia University Libraries. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-jj2g-e225
Wolf, S., González Canché, M. S., & Coe, K. (2021). A complex systems network approach to quantifying peer effects: Evidence from Ghanaian preprimary classrooms. Child Development.
Mason, S., Merga, K., González Canché, M. S., & Roni, S. (2021). The internationality of published higher education scholarship: How do the ‘top’ journals compare?, Journal of Informetrics, 15(2). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2021.101155.
Lee, J., Dell, M., González Canché, M. S., Monday, A. (2021). The costs of corroboration: The effects of financial aid verification on college enrollment. Education, Evaluation, and Policy Analysis.
González Canché, M. S. (2020). Community college students who attained a 4-year degree accrued lower student loan debt than 4-year entrants over 2 decades: Is a 10 percent debt accumulation reduction worth the added “risk”? If so, for whom? Research in Higher Education.
Lee, J., Ciaramboli, E., Rubin, P., & González Canché, M. S. (2020). Borrowing smarter or borrowing more? Investigating the effects of a change in federal loan policy. The Journal of Higher Education.
Leigh, E., & González Canché, M. S. (2020). The college promise in communities: Do place-based scholarships affect residential mobility patterns? Research in Higher Education.
Ortagus, J., Kramer II, D., González Canché, M. S., & Fernandez, F. (2020). The impact of community college baccalaureate adoption on associate degree production. Teachers College Record.
González Canché, M. S. (2019). Repurposing standardized testing for educational equity: Can geographical bias and adversity scores expand true college access? Policy insights for the brain and behavioral sciences. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
González Canché, M. S. (2019). Geographical, statistical, and qualitative network analysis: A multifaceted method-bridging tool to reveal and model meaningful structures in education research. In M. B. Paulsen & L. W. Perna (Eds.). Higher education: Handbook of theory and research, vol. 34. Springer.
González Canché, M. S. (2019). Re(de)fining college access and its association with divergent forms of financial aid: A proposed conceptual and analytic framework. Journal of Hispanic Higher Education.
González Canché, M. S. (2019). Spatial econometrics and network analysis as means to assess the assumption of independence in higher education research. New Directions for Institutional Research.
González Canché, M. S. (2019). The statistical power of “zooming in:” Applying geographically-based difference in differences using spatio-temporal analysis to the study of college aid and access. New Directions for Institutional Research.
González Canché, M. S. (2018). Challenges and opportunities in the use of big and geocoded data in higher education research and policy. In M. Gasman & A. Castro-Samoya (Eds.), Contemporary issues in higher education. New York: Routledge.
González Canché, M. S. (2018). Reassessing the two-year sector’s role in the amelioration of a persistent socioeconomic gap: A proposed analytical framework for the study of community college effects in the big and geocoded data and quasi-experimental era. In M. B. Paulsen (Ed.), Higher education: Handbook of theory and research. New York: Springer.
Rubin, P. & González Canché, M. S. (in press, 2019). Test-flexible admissions policies and student enrollment demographics: Examining a public research university. Review of Higher Education.
Turk, J. M. & González Canché, M. S. (2018). On-campus housing’s impact on degree completion and upward transfer in the community college sector: A comprehensive quasi-experimental analysis. The Journal of Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2018.1487755
González Canché, M. S. (2018). Geographical network analysis and spatial econometrics as tools to enhance our understanding of student migration patterns and benefits in the U.S. higher education network. The Review of Higher Education, 41(2), 169-216. DOI: 10.1353/rhe.2018.0001
González Canché, M. S. (2018). Nearby college enrollment and geographical skills mismatch: (Re)conceptualizing student out-migration in the American higher education system. The Journal of Higher Education, 1-43. DOI: 10.1080/00221546.2018.1442637
González Canché, M. S. (2017). Financial benefits of rapid student loan repayment: An analytic framework employing two decades of data. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 671(1), 154–182.
González Canché, M. S. (2017). The heterogeneous non-resident student body: Measuring the effect of out-of-state students’ home-state wealth on tuition and fee price variations. Research in Higher Education, 58, 141–183.
González Canché, M. S. (2017). Community college scientists and salary gap: Navigating socioeconomic and academic stratification in the U.S. higher education system. Journal of Higher Education, 88(1), 1–32.
González Canché, M. S. (2014). Localized competition in the non-resident student market. Economics of Education Review, 43, 21–35.
González Canché, M. S. (2014). Is the community college a less expensive path toward a bachelor's degree? Public 2- and 4-year colleges' impact on loan debt. The Journal of Higher Education, 85(5), 723–759.
*Denotes PhD students.