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Figure 1 presents the framework graphically. Individuals start their PSE programs at time t0. After one year, at time t1, they are classified according to the four possible outcomes:“continuers”, “graduates”, “switchers”, and “leavers”. “Continuers”, progress to the next time period t2, since they did not, by definition, make any of the relevant transitions in the first year. For “graduates”, “switchers”, and “leavers”, these individuals are excluded from further analysis of the persistence dynamic because they have in fact made one of the relevant transitions during the year in question. Those who cannot be followed any further in the data because they are censored are simply deleted from the analysis as of the relevant spell year.