The Labor Market Returns to Sub-Baccalaureate College: A Review. A CAPSEE Working Paper.

C Belfield, T Bailey - Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and …, 2017 - ERIC
This paper reviews recent evidence on the labor market returns to credit accumulation,
certificates, and associate degrees from community colleges. Evidence is collated from …

Affirmative action and the quality–fit trade-off

P Arcidiacono, M Lovenheim - Journal of Economic Literature, 2016 - aeaweb.org
This paper reviews the literature on affirmative action in undergraduate education and law
schools, focusing especially on the trade-off between institutional quality and the fit between …

Community colleges and upward mobility

J Mountjoy - American Economic Review, 2022 - aeaweb.org
Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United
States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students …

ProPelled: The effects of grants on graduation, earnings, and welfare

JT Denning, BM Marx, LJ Turner - American Economic Journal: Applied …, 2019 - aeaweb.org
We estimate effects of the Pell Grant—the largest US federal grant for college students—
using administrative data from Texas public colleges and a discontinuity in grant generosity …

Career technical education and labor market outcomes: Evidence from California community colleges

AH Stevens, M Kurlaender, M Grosz - Journal of Human Resources, 2019 - jhr.uwpress.org
Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as
an attractive alternative to four-year colleges, yet little systematic evidence exists on the …

Returns to different postsecondary investments: Institution type, academic programs, and credentials

M Lovenheim, J Smith - Handbook of the Economics of Education, 2023 - Elsevier
Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

Winners and losers? the effect of gaining and losing access to selective colleges on education and labor market outcomes

SE Black, JT Denning, J Rothstein - American Economic Journal …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We use the introduction of the Texas Top Ten Percent rule to estimate the effect of access to
a selective college on graduation and earnings outcomes for two groups of students. For …

State investment in higher education: Effects on human capital formation, student debt, and long-term financial outcomes of students

R Chakrabarti, N Gorton, MF Lovenheim - 2020 - nber.org
Most public colleges and universities rely heavily on state financial support. As state budgets
have tightened in recent decades, appropriations for higher education have declined …

[BOOK][B] The returns to college (s): Estimating value-added and match effects in higher education

J Mountjoy, B Hickman - 2020 - masteringmetrics.com
Students who attend different colleges in the United States end up with vastly different
educational and labor market outcomes. We estimate value-added of individual …

Recruiting and supporting low-income, high-achieving students at flagship universities

RJ Andrews, SA Imberman, MF Lovenheim - Economics of Education …, 2020 - Elsevier
We study an intervention designed to overcome multiple hurdles faced by low-income, high-
ability college students to determine if and how it affects students' long-term outcomes. UT …