Community Colleges and Upward Mobility

被引:19
作者
Mountjoy, Jack [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Chicago, Booth Sch Business, Chicago, IL 60637 USA
[2] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
关键词
LOCAL INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; IN-KIND; RETURNS; HETEROGENEITY; MODELS; DISTRIBUTIONS; EDUCATION; QUALITY; TUITION; SKILLS;
D O I
10.1257/aer.20181756
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
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 four-year institutions cast ambiguity over two-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 two-year college access into two competing causal margins: significant value added for two-year entrants who otherwise would not have attended college, but negative impacts on students diverted from immediate four-year entry.
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页码:2580 / 2630
页数:51
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