The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators?

By David J. Deming, Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz. 2011

385 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Political Science and International Relations

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In Education

1. Joshua Hyman
2. Cassandra M. D. Hart
3. S. Cellini
4. C. Lindsay
5. L. Chaudhary
6. Claudia Goldin
7. David J. Deming
8. S. Gershenson

In Political Science and International Relations

1. S. Cellini
2. L. Chaudhary
3. Claudia Goldin
4. Noam Yuchtman
5. S. Gershenson
6. Lawrence F. Katz
7. E. Taylor
8. David J. Deming

Citations in the corpus

• College on Credit: A Multilevel Analysis of Student Loan Default (2013, background): “The Deming, Goldin, and Katz (2012) study raises an important ques‑ tion: Is default the result of student‑level factors (e.g., students’ background characteristics and academic experiences) or might default be a function of the business model of some institutions?”
• The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study (2014, neutral): “In this paper we follow Deming et al. (2015) in using direct survey questions about distance education that IPEDS began asking in 2012.”
• The Long-Run Impacts of Same-Race Teachers (2017, positive): “For example, the return on investments in two-year college attendance and completion may depend on whether students enrolled in community colleges or for-profit institutions; the latter are more costly for students (Cellini, 2012) and may have lower returns than do non-profit institutions (Deming et”
• Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success (2017, background): “Deming, Goldin, and Katz (2012) provide an overview of the for-profit sector.”
• The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit College Education (2014, positive): “Deming et al. (2012), Lang and Weinstein (2012) and Lang and Weinstein (2013)4 draw on the Beginning Postsecondary Student (BPS) data along with OLS and propensity score methods.”
• Can Online Learning Bend the Higher Education Cost Curve (2015, positive): “For-profit “chains” are defined as institutions (grouped by brand name, e.g. University of Phoenix) that operate in multiple states, following Deming, Goldin and Katz (2012).”
• Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility (2017, neutral): “Finally, as with public and private not-for-profit colleges, there is considerable variance within the for-profit sector in terms of success rates and access, consistent with the findings of Deming et al. (2012). More generally, comparisons across colleges in different selectivity tiers provide rela”
• Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, neutral): “…a policy that increases the number of graduates in STEM fields will be large or small, positive or negative.3 Our paper is primarily related to a small but growing literature on the payoffs to different types of post-secondary education, reviewed in Deming et al. (2012) and Altonji et al. (2012).”