Democratization or Diversion? The Effect of Community Colleges on Educational Attainment

By C. Rouse. 1995

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Causal inference by using invariant prediction: identification and confidence intervals (2015, background): “We look at a data set about educational attainment of teenagers [Rouse, 1995].”
The impact of community college attendance on baccalaureate attainment (2006, methodology): “(1) is extended, following Shakotko and Grossman (1980) and Hilmer (2001), to allow high school graduates to make two sequential enrollment decisions.”
An Examination of the Impact of Accelerating Community College Students' Progression through Developmental Education (2014, unknown): “…unrelated to student characteristics, such as academic ability, that determine educational outcomes (Bettinger & long, 2009; card, 2001; dee, 2004; Rouse, 1995). if students randomly sorted into short versus long sequences, we could simply compare the outcomes of students who started in a shorter…”
Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, result): “Our results are also consistent with previous evidence of a graduation rate penalty associated with choosing a 2-year college instead of a 4-year college (Rouse 1995, 1998; Leigh and Gill 2003; Long and Kurlaender 2009; Reyn-olds 2012; Smith and Stange 2015).”
Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment (2007, methodology): “…finding using matching estimators echoes earlier work using regressions to adjust for observable differences between those starting at two and four year schools (Rouse (1995), Leigh and Gill education, family structure, and race may affect the educational resources available outside of schools.”
Econometric Studies of Higher Education. (2004, methodology): “…Returns to Postsecondary Education: New Evidence from the Class of 1972”, Journal of Human Resources 30: 205-221 (1995a) Kane, T. and C. Rouse 1995, Labor-Market Returns to Two- and Four-Year Colleges, American Economic Review 85: 600-614 (1995b) 34 Kaufman, R. and G. Woglom 2002,…”
Remediation in the Community College (2008, background): “Previous research has shown that students are more likely to attend one college over another depending on how close the colleges are to their homes (Rouse, 1995), but given between-college variation in remediation placement policies, the distance from home also affects the probability of receiving…”
Pathways to Boosting the Earnings of Low-Income Students by Increasing Their Educational Attainment. (2009, background): “Earnings tend to be slightly higher for students who attain credentials relative to students without credentials who have completed the same number of courses (Grubb, 1997; Kane & Rouse, 1995).”
Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Community College Student Success (2010, background): “In fact, individuals from middle-class backgrounds may incur the greatest benefits from the community college and in particular its transfer function (Dougherty, 1994; Leigh & Gill, 2003; Rouse, 1995, 1998).”
The impact of online learning on students’ course outcomes: Evidence from a large community and technical college system (2013, background): “…have suggested that individuals or families ho value education might choose to live near a college mpus (e.g., Card, 1995; Long & Kurlaender, 2009; Rouse, 95); similarly, the quality of a student’s previous high hool instruction might vary systematically with the high hool’s distance from the…”