The Returns of a Community College Education: Evidence From the National Education Longitudinal Survey

By Dave E. Marcotte, Thomas R. Bailey, Carey Borkoski, Gregory S. Kienzl. 2005

214 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Di Xu
2. M. Trimble
3. C. Belfield
4. V. Liu
5. Thomas R. Bailey

In Education

1. Di Xu
2. M. Trimble
3. C. Belfield
4. V. Liu
5. Davis Jenkins
6. Timothy Leinbach
7. Thomas R. Bailey
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Citations in the corpus

• The Labor-Market Returns to Community College Degrees, Diplomas, and Certificates (2014, unknown): “Marcotte et al. (2005) obtain similar results for community colleges from a more recent cohort of students.”
• What About Certificates? Evidence on the Labor Market Returns to Nondegree Community College Awards in Two States (2016, methodology): “…et al., 2004; Kerckhoff & Bell, 1998), losing participants through nonresponse in multiwave surveys (e.g., Bailey et al., 2004; Hollenbeck, 1993; Marcotte et al., 2005), possible measurement errors in selfreported earnings (e.g., Grubb, 1995; Hollenbeck, 1993; Marcotte et al., 2005), and even…”
• 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).”
• The Benefits of Attending Community College: A Review of the Evidence (2011, methodology): “Also, the evidence from Marcotte et al. (2005) shows higher gains using the more recent NELS data set.”
• The Medium-Term Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From North Carolina (2014, result): “This finding contrasts with those of Jacobson et al. (2005), Jepsen et al. (2011), and Marcotte et al. (2005), who found more consistently that younger students benefitted more across award types.”
• Is Student Success Labeled Institutional Failure? Student Goals and Graduation Rates in the Accountability Debate at Community Colleges. CCRC Working Paper No. 1. (2005, background): “In any case, research has shown that there are clear economic benefits to credentials and, in particular, to a bachelor’s degree, so high educational expectations should be seen as a rational economic goal for students (Grubb, 2002; Kane & Rouse, 1995; Marcotte, Bailey, Borkoski, & Kienzl, 2005 ).”