Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data

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) a...

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Published inThe Journal of human resources Vol. 49; no. 2; pp. 323 - 358
Main Authors Dale, Stacy B., Krueger, Alan B.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Madison The University of Wisconsin Press 01.04.2014
University of Wisconsin Press
Subjects
Black colleges
College students
Colleges
Decision making models
Earnings
Economic theory
Grade point average
Graduates
High schools
Labor economics
Labour market
Minority group students
Regression analysis
Social security
Standard error
Standardized tests
Student athletes
Students
Studies
Tuition
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:0022-166X
1548-8004
1548-8004
DOI:10.1353/jhr.2014.0015