/degrees from for-profit, not-for-profit, and public institutions. Students who enter certificate programs at any type of …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend … than students attending similarly-selective public schools. Because for-profits tend to serve students from more …. The first-stage estimates show that students are much more likely to enroll in a for-profit institution for a given labor …

no effect on the educational attainment of children born in the fourth quarter of moving from a December 31 to an earlier …

more students at not-for-profits earn a BA, making them less likely to have only an Associate's degree. There is …

the distribution of earnings. We proxy college quality using the college sector from which students graduate and focus on …

ordinal scales. Using the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey, we examine …

-effects controls, which is consistent with students choosing majors based on comparative advantage. We do not find statistically …

investments that we document leads to the question of how students from different backgrounds sort into these different … institutions and programs. We discuss the emerging research showing that lower-SES students, especially in the U.S., are more … policies designed to support success among students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The Chapter concludes with some broad …

to the role of earnings growth and variability. Using linked administrative data from Texas on public K-12 students …