The returns to higher education for marginal students: Evidence from Colorado Welfare recipients

Lesley Turner

Economics of Education Review, 2016, vol. 51, issue C, 169-184

Abstract: I estimate the impact of community college credits and credentials on the labor market outcomes of several cohorts of current and former welfare recipients. Using an individual fixed effects approach, I find that women who attend college after entering welfare experience large and significant earnings gains. These returns are driven by credential receipt and when sub-associate’ s degree credentials are unobservable, positive earnings gains will be inappropriately attributed to college attendance alone.

Keywords: Access to higher education; Community colleges; Welfare (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I26 I38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2015.09.005

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