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 …

to quantify the impact of for-profit college attendance on the employment and earnings of over one million students …. Using a matched comparison group difference-in-differences design, we find that certificate-seeking students in for … after attendance than students in public institutions. These results hold for both men and women and for seven of the top …

are also large differences across States in the proportion of college graduates in the labor force. State subsidies are … decisions of college graduates. The model is estimated using NLSY data, and used to quantify the sensitivity of migration and …

college graduates or for older (45-54 year old) female college graduates. For all these groups, real earnings increased during … the 1980s and the percentage in 'high school jobs' declined. The assertion is valid only for older male college graduates …. Young college graduates improved their labor market position during the 1980s by increasingly obtaining degrees in …

to examine the earnings growth of college graduates relative to high school graduates during the 1970s depressed market … for graduates. The principal finding is that the longitudinal/cohort earnings profile for college graduates flattened … markedly relative to that for high school graduates in the 1970s. With smaller growth rates of earnings for the college …

test claims to establish equivalence between dropouts and traditional high school graduates, opening the door to college … induces some students to drop out of school. The GED program is unique to the United States and Canada, but provides policy …

not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a …? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect market …