TY - JOUR T1 - Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data JF - Journal of Human Resources JO - J Hum Resour SP - 323 LP - 358 DO - 10.3368/jhr.49.2.323 VL - 49 IS - 2 AU - Stacy B. Dale AU - Alan B. Krueger Y1 - 2014/03/31 UR - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/323.abstract N2 - 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. ER -