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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w14367 |
来源ID | Working Paper 14367 |
Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree? | |
Bridget Terry Long; Michal Kurlaender | |
发表日期 | 2008-09-25 |
出版年 | 2008 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Community colleges have become an important entryway for students intending to complete a baccalaureate degree. However, many question the viability of the transfer function and wonder whether students suffer a penalty for starting at a two-year institution. This paper examines how the outcomes of community college entrants compare to similar students who initially entered four-year institutions within the Ohio public higher education system. Using a detailed dataset, we track outcomes for nine years and employ multiple strategies to deal with selection issues: propensity score matching and instrumental variables. The results suggest that straightforward estimates are significantly biased, but even after accounting for selection, students who initially begin at a community college were 14.5 percent less likely to complete a bachelor's degree within nine years. |
主题 | Econometrics ; Estimation Methods ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14367 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572039 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Bridget Terry Long,Michal Kurlaender. Do Community Colleges provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?. 2008. |
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