The Medium-Term Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From North Carolina

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The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers (2017, unknown): “…degrees, certification programs, and even completed community college credits generate wage increases that, on average, more than offset their costs(Liu et al., 2015; Minaya and Scott-Clayton, 2020; Kane and Rouse, 1995; Marcotte et al., 2005; Belfield and Bailey, 2011; Jepsen et al., 2014).”
What About Certificates? Evidence on the Labor Market Returns to Nondegree Community College Awards in Two States (2016, methodology): “We categorize each credential into a field of study based on the credential’s assigned CIP code, following a field classification scheme used in prior literature (Dadgar & Trimble, 2014; Belfield et al., 2014).”
Performance-Based Funding in American Higher Education: A Systematic Synthesis of the Intended and Unintended Consequences (2020, background): “Given that numerous researchers have found that short-term certificates (unlike associate degrees) do not have a positive average effect on students’ wages or their likelihood of employment (Dadgar & Trimble, 2015; Liu et al., 2014), institutional gaming of the PBF system to promote short-term certi”