Layoff, Lemons, and Faculty Quality: Can You Recognize an Effective Adjunct Faculty When You Recruit One?
March 16, 2017 | Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Annual Conference
What Are the Effects of Year-Round Pell Grants on Short-Term Academic Outcomes and Employment During College?
March 16, 2017 | Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) Annual Conference
This presentation looks at research on the effect of year-round Pell grants on summer enrollment and associate degree completion using a state administrative data set from a community college system and a difference in differences method of analysis.
For-Profit Schools, an Obama Target, See New Day Under Trump
For-Profit Schools, an Obama Target, See New Day Under Trump | 2/20/2017
The New York Times links to research by Clive Belfield on for-profit colleges in this story on expected changes to the regulation of for-profit colleges under the Trump administration.
Estimating Returns to College Attainment: Comparing Survey and State Administrative Data Based Estimates
By: Judith Scott-Clayton & Qiao Wen | January 2017
This paper uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to provide new, nationally representative, non-experimental estimates of the returns to degrees, as well as to assess the possible limitations of single-state, administrative-data-based estimates.
Nonpecuniary Returns to Postsecondary Education: Examining Early Non-Wage Labor Market Outcomes Among College-Goers in the United States
By: Lauren Schudde | January 2017
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this paper examines nonpecuniary labor market outcomes associated with different levels of postsecondary educational attainment.
How and Why Do Adjunct Instructors Affect Students’ Academic Outcomes? Evidence From Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges
By: Florence Xiaotao Ran & Di Xu | January 2017
Using student transcript records and detailed college instructor employment information from one state, this paper examines whether adjunct faculty have different impacts on student academic outcomes than tenure-track and tenured faculty.
The Earnings of Community College Graduates in California
By: Peter Riley Bahr | December 2016
This paper draws on longitudinal data for 1.1 million students in California to estimate the effects of community college credentials on students’ earnings, as compared with students who are not awarded a credential.
The Labor Market Returns to a Community College Education for Non-Completing Students
By: Peter Riley Bahr | December 2016
Extending recent work on the labor market returns to a community college education, this paper uses a comparable student-level fixed effects approach and panel data from California to investigate the returns to students who do not complete credentials.
The Fixed-Effects Model in Returns to Schooling and Its Application to Community Colleges: A Methodological Note
By: Susan Dynarski, Brian Jacob, & Daniel Kreisman | December 2016
In this short piece, the authors use data from Michigan to test the common-trends assumption that underlies the individual fixed-effects estimation strategy.
Performance Standards in Need-Based Student Aid
By: Judith Scott-Clayton & Lauren Schudde | December 2016
This paper illustrates student responses to Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements as well as the tradeoffs faced by a social planner weighing whether to set performance standards in the context of need-based aid.