| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22880 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22880 |
| Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better than None? | |
| Veronica Minaya; Judith Scott-Clayton | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-12-05 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Policymakers at the state and federal level are increasingly pushing to hold institutions accountable for the labor market outcomes of their students. There is no consensus, however, on how such measures should be constructed, or how the choice of measure may affect the resulting institutional ratings. Using state administrative data that links postsecondary transcripts and in-state quarterly earnings and unemployment records over more than a decade, we construct a variety of possible institution-level labor market outcome metrics. We then explore how sensitive institutional ratings are to the choice of labor market metric, length of follow-up, and inclusion of adjustments for student characteristics. We also examine how labor market metrics compare to the academic-outcome-based metrics that are more commonly incorporated into state accountability systems. We conclude that labor market data provides information that is quite distinct from students’ academic outcomes. Institutional ratings based on labor market outcomes, however, are quite sensitive to the specific metric. The choice of metric and length of follow up appear to matter much more than compositional adjustments. Our findings suggest a cautious approach: while a mix of feasible labor market metrics may be better than none, reliance on a single metric, especially if measured very early, may undermine policymakers’ ongoing efforts to accurately quantify institutional performance. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22880 |
| 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/580554 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Veronica Minaya,Judith Scott-Clayton. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better than None?. 2016. |
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