Denying Loan Access: The Student-Level Consequences When Community Colleges Opt Out of the Stafford Loan Program

By: Mark Wiederspan | July 2015

This paper investigates the student-level impacts associated with the decision of community colleges to opt out of the Stafford loan program.

Career-Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence From California Community Colleges

By: Ann Stevens, Michal Kurlaender, & Michel Grosz | May 2015

This paper estimates the earnings returns to vocational, or career-technical, education programs in California Community Colleges, the nation’s largest community college system.

CAPSEE at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting

April 16–20, 2015 | American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting

At the 2015 AERA conference, several CAPSEE researchers presented their research findings.

Examining the Earnings Trajectories of Community College Students Using a Piecewise Growth Curve Modeling Approach

By: Shanna Smith Jaggars & Di Xu | April 2015

This paper introduces a piecewise growth approach to analyzing labor market outcomes of students, and it discusses how insights gained from the approach can be used to strengthen econometric analyses of labor market returns. A version of this paper is available in the Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness.

Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From Michigan

By: Peter Riley Bahr, Susan Dynarski, Brian Jacob, Daniel Kreisman, Alfredo Sosa, & Mark Wiederspan | March 2015

This paper examines the relative labor market gains experienced by first-time college students who enrolled in five community colleges in Michigan in 2003 and 2004.

The Labor Market Returns to Math Courses in Community College

By: Clive Belfield & Vivian Yuen Ting Liu | March 2015

Using matched college transcript and earnings data on over 80,000 students entering community college during the 2000s, this paper examines the returns to math courses.

CAPSEE at the Association for Education Finance and Policy (AEFP) 40th Annual Conference

February 26–28, 2015 | Association for Education Finance and Policy Annual Conference

At the 2015 AEFP conference, several CAPSEE researchers presented their research findings.

Transfer From a Community College or Attend a Four-Year College Directly? Disparity in Student Academic and Labor Market Outcomes

February 28, 2015 | Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting

This presentation examined disparities in student and academic labor market outcomes between transfer students and non-transfer four-year students.

Dropout-Adjusted Outcomes

Dropout-Adjusted Outcomes | 2/16/2015
Inside Higher Ed highlights findings from a recent CAPSEE study on the returns to community college attendance. CAPSEE researcher Clive Belfield is quoted in the article.

CAPSEE Researchers Discuss the Cost and Quality of Online Learning

CAPSEE Researchers Discuss the Cost and Quality of Online Learning | 2/5/2015
CAPSEE researchers David Deming, Claudia Goldin, and Lawrence F. Katz, along with colleague Noam Yuchtman, discuss their recent research on online learning in terms of the cost savings and employer perceptions of online degrees.