Community Colleges and Upward Mobility. Working Paper 29254

Autor/in	Mountjoy, Jack
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Community Colleges and Upward Mobility. Working Paper 29254
Quelle	(2021) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Community Colleges; Two Year College Students; Social Mobility; Outcomes of Education; Access to Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Soziale Mobilität; Lernleistung; Schulerfolg; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang
Abstract	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 from 4-year institutions cast ambiguity over 2-year colleges' contributions to upward mobility. This paper develops a new instrumental variables approach to identifying causal effects along multiple treatment margins, and applies it to linked education and earnings registries to disentangle the net impacts of 2-year college access into two competing causal margins: significant value-added for 2-year entrants who otherwise would not have attended college, but negative impacts on students diverted from immediate 4-year entry. [Additional funding for this report was provided by the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics and the Robert H. Topel Faculty Research Fund at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.] (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01