CAPSEE Publications

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

By: Vivian Yuen Ting Liu | November 2016

Using proximity to the closest four-year college as an instrumental variable, this paper analyzes public higher education data from an anonymous state to examine how enrolling in summer credits can impact college and labor market outcomes.

By: Adela Soliz & Bridget Terry Long | November 2016

Using data on students in the Ohio public higher education system, this paper estimates the causal effects of participating in the Federal Work-Study program on college GPA, credits earned, and persistence.

By: Di Xu & Jeffrey Fletcher | October 2016

This book chapter replicates and extends analyses completed in other state-wide studies and estimates returns to credentials and credit accumulation for first-time college students who enrolled in the Virginia Community College System (VCCS) in 2004–2005 using a classic Mincerian Approach.

By: Eric Bettinger & Adela Soliz | October 2016

This paper estimates the earnings returns to community and technical college associate degree and certificate programs in the state of Ohio.

By: Judith Scott-Clayton | July 2016

Using national data on baccalaureate recipients in 1993 and 2008, this paper examines labor market and debt outcomes four years after students graduate, with a focus on exploring heterogeneity by institution type and major, as well as trends over time.