Kane and Rouse (1993) furnish evidence that enrollment in a two-year-or four-year-college program increases earnings by 5 to 8 percent per year of college credits, whether or not a degree is earned. This evidence has provided the intellectual basis for policy recommendations to increase access...

This study provides a basic framework for incorporating the causes of occupational differences into analyses of racial wage differentials. Separating the influences of personal characteristics, occupational choice, and hiring discrimination on occupational attainment provides measures of the...

This paper provides new evidence about the payoffs to community colleges’ terminal training programs as distinct from their traditional transfer function. Using NLSY data, we offer three main findings. First, fouryear college graduates who started at a community college are not at a...