RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data JF Journal of Human Resources JO J Hum Resour FD University of Wisconsin Press SP 323 OP 358 DO 10.3368/jhr.49.2.323 VO 49 IS 2 A1 Stacy B. Dale A1 Alan B. Krueger YR 2014 UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/49/2/323.abstract 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.