Postsecondary Education Structure

Cory Koedel

No 906, Working Papers from Department of Economics, University of Missouri

Abstract: States differ substantially in the structures of their public four-year university systems. This paper uses micro-level data to evaluate the effects of postsecondary education structure on individuals’ educational and labor-market outcomes. Postsecondary education structure affects whether individuals attend universities at all, whether they attend public or private universities, and whether they attend large or small universities. Individuals who are exposed to more-fractionalized structures are adversely affected in the labor market. In conjunction with evidence that it is more expensive to educate students at smaller universities, this latter result suggests that states with more-fractionalized postsecondary education structures should look to consolidate their resources into fewer, larger universities.

Keywords: postsecondary education structure; higher education structure; small university; large university; postsecondary education costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I23 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2009-07-03
Note: Originally submitted as: Postsecondary Education Structure and Human Capital Production
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