PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Dale, Stacy B.
AU  - Krueger, Alan B.
TI  - Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.49.2.323
DP  - 2014 Mar 31
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 323--358
VI  - 49
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/323.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/323.full
SO  - J Hum Resour2014 Mar 31; 49
AB  - We estimate the labor market effect of attending a highly selective college, using the College and Beyond Survey linked to Social Security Administration data. We extend earlier work by estimating effects for students that entered college in 1976 over a longer time horizon (from 1983 through 2007) and for a more recent cohort (1989). For both cohorts, the effects of college characteristics on earnings are sizeable (and similar in magnitude) in standard regression models. In selection-adjusted models, these effects generally fall to close to zero; however, these effects remain large for certain subgroups, such as for black and Hispanic students.