Education Pays: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society

By S. Baum, Jennifer Ma, K. Payea. 2007

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College Knowledge of 9th and 11th Grade Students: Variation by School and State Context (2009, background): “College enrollment rates are lower for high school graduates whose parents have not attended college, those with low-incomes, as well as Black and Latino/a students than for other high school graduates (Baum & Ma, 2007; Ellwood & Kane, 2000; NCES, 2007; Thomas & Perna, 2004).”
High School Socioeconomic Segregation and Student Attainment (2013, background): “The study concluded that SEC had the strongest association with student achievement of any school factor, suggesting the SES of one’s classmates matters more than school facilities, curriculum, per pupil expenditures, teacher quality, and racial composition and that segregating low SES children in…”
The College Application Gauntlet: A Systematic Analysis of the Steps to Four-Year College Enrollment (2011, background): “In addition to the monetary rewards, a college degree can lead to better health, greater civic engagement, and higher rates of employment (Baum and Ma 2007; Perna 2006).”
Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity (2017, background): “chronic diseases, health behaviors (e.g., smoking status, heavy drinking physical activity, preventive services or screening behavior, automobile and home safety) and more (Baum et al., 2013; Cutler and Lleras-Muney, 2006, 2010; Feinstein et al., 2006; Krueger et al., 2015; Rostron et al., 2010).”
Mathematics Interventions for Upper Elementary and Secondary Students: A Meta-Analysis of Research (2018, unknown): “…sets the stage for whether students enroll in post-secondary institutions or pursue other options after high school (Lee, 2012), and these decisions are directly related to the income that students earn as adults (Baum, Ma, & Payea, 2010; Deming, Cohodes, Jennings, & Jencks, 2013; Dougherty, 2003).”
Effect of Personal Financial Knowledge on College Students’ Credit Card Behavior (2009, background): “In this context, college student use of debt instruments, including credit cards, could be considered a rational decision given their significantly higher expected earnings path as compared with high school graduates (Baum & Payea, 2004; Kidwell & Turrisi, 2000; Norvilitis & Santa Maria, 2002).”
Delineating the Ways That Key Institutional Agents Provide Racial Minority Students With Access to Social Capital in College (2012, background): “The relatively low rates of baccalaureate degree attainment among racial minority undergraduates pose negative consequences for individual students, institutions, and broader society (Baum & Payea, 2005; Swail, 2004).”
Academic Advising and First-Generation College Students: A Quantitative Study on Student Retention (2013, background): “…lower than the institution’s overall freshman-to-sophomore persistence rate of 82% in 2009 (U.S. Department of Education, 2010) and the national freshman-to-sophomore retention rate for full- time students at public, 4- year institutions of 78% during this same period (Baum & Ma, 2007).”
How College Affects Students: Ten Directions for Future Research (2006, background): “…clear picture of the long term contributions of postsecondary education to an individual’s labormarket success and personal life after college (e.g., Baum & Payea, 2004; Boesel & Fredland, 1999; Ehrenberg, 2004; Hartog & Oosterbeek, 1998; Knox, Lindsay, & Kolb, 1993; Leslie & Brinkman, 1988;…”
The Role of Ethnic Student Organizations in Fostering African American and Asian American Students' Cultural Adjustment and Membership at Predominantly White Institutions (2008, background): “These low rates of baccalaureate degree attainment are not trivial for individual students or society (Baum & Payea, 2005; Swail, Redd, & Perna, 2003; Tinto, 1993).”