| Author(s): | Lang, K., and Weinstein, R. |
| Title: | Evaluating student outcomes at for-profit colleges |
| Source: | http://www.nber.org/papers/w18201.pdf?new_window=1 |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Organization: | National Bureau of Economic Research |
| Short Description: | Using the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey, this study examines the effect on earnings of obtaining certificates/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. |
| Annotation: | Using the Beginning Postsecondary Student Survey, this study examines the effect on earnings of obtaining certificates/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of institution do not gain from earning a certificate. However, among those entering associates degree programs, there are large, statistically significant benefits from obtaining certificates/degrees from public and not-for-profit but not from for-profit institutions. These results are robust to addressing selection into the labor market from college, and into positive earnings from unemployment, using imputation methods and quantile regression along with a maximum likelihood sample selection model. |
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