Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United States

By M. Hout. 2012

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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Parental Education Better Helps White than Black Families Escape Poverty: National Survey of Children’s Health (2018, background): “Studies have previously documented racial differences in returns of education attainment (Hout 2012).”
The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings (2018, neutral): “word embeddings, word2vec, culture, computational sociology, methodology, text analysis, content analysis Goldthorpe 2007; DiMaggio 1982; Hout 2012).”
Reducing Income Inequality in Educational Attainment: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial Aid on College Completion1 (2016, background): “Reducing Income Inequality in Educational”
The potential educational benefits of extending foster care to young adults: findings from a natural experiment (2017, background): “Research has long demonstrated the employment and earnings benefits accompanying educational attainment, particularly postsecondary education (Hout, 2012).”
Occupational Closure and Wage Inequality in Germany and the United Kingdom (2015, background): “Other analyses focus on one closure institution in isolation, as in studies of declining union wage returns, collective bargaining, licensure, or the college wage premium (e.g. Humphris et al., 2011; Western and Rosenfeld, 2011; Hout, 2012; Giesselmann, 2014).”
Resilience, Academic Self-Concept, and College Adjustment Among First-Year Students (2018, background): “Previous researchers have found a college degree correlating strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as financial success, health, family stability, and social connections (Baum et al., 2010; Haut, 2012).”
Education Development in China: Education Return, Quality, and Equity (2019, neutral): “In general, education makes life better [30].”
Does education pay for youth formerly in foster care? Comparison of employment outcomes with a national sample (2014, neutral): “In studies that control for factors that may be related to level of education and employment outcomes, the advantages that accompany postsecondary education have been extensively verified (Hout, 2012).”
Equalization or Selection? Reassessing the “Meritocratic Power” of a College Degree in Intergenerational Income Mobility (2019, background): “This interaction can be alternatively interpreted as a higher “return to education” among children from disadvantaged social origins (Goldthorpe and Jackson 2008; Hout 2012).”
Income Inequality, Intergenerational Mobility, and the Great Gatsby Curve: Is Education the Key? (2015, background): “…factor many sociologists and economists deem critical in the transmission of (dis)advantage across generations (Duncan and Hodge 1963; Blau and Duncan 1967; Becker and Tomes 1986; Hout 1988; Ishida, Müller, and Ridge 1995; Breen and Goldthorpe 2001; Breen and Jonsson 2007; Duncan and Murnane 2011).”
Stressors and Turning Points in High School and Dropout (2015, background): “higher wages associated with more years of schooling (Hout, 2012).”