Estimating the Returns to College Quality with Multiple Proxies for Quality

By D. Black, Jeffrey A. Smith. Journal of Labor Economics, 2006

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Access to 4-Year Public Colleges and Degree Completion (2017, background): “…differences within the 4-year sector, including the Latin American studies cited earlier, and US studies based on selection on observables models (Black and Smith 2004, 2006; Black, Smith, and Daniel 2005; Long 2008; Dale and Krueger 2014), twin ﬁ xed effects models (Smith 2013), and regression…”
Social Stratification in Higher Education (2009, background): “…degree (Long, 2008; Small & Winship, 2007) and subsequently enjoy higher levels of occupational prestige (Brand & Halaby, 2006), earnings (D. Black & Smith, 2006; Eide, Brewer, & Ehrenberg, 1998; Thomas & Zhang, 2005), and greater chances of gaining entry into the elite or ruling class…”
Changes in the Returns to Education and College Quality. (2010, neutral): “…Wales (1973), James, Alsalam, and Conaty (1989), Loury and arman (1995), Behrman, Rosenzweig, and Taubman (1996), Daniel et l. (1997), Bowen and Bok (1998), Hoxby (1998), Kane (1998), Brewer et l. (1999), Monks (2000), Hilmer (2002), Black and Smith (2004, 2006), ong (2008), and Hoekstra (2009).”
Skills in the city (2009, methodology): “26 See for instance Black and Smith (2006), Brewer et al. (1999). 27 It is possible that selection might explain the college quality urban premium.”
Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas. NBER Working Paper No. 18068. (2012, positive): “…to college quality have found evidence that students who attend or graduate from higher quality schools earn more in the labor market.1 Black and Smith (2004, 2006) use matching estimators on National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data to show that students who attend schools with higher…”
Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, positive): “Black and Smith (2006) use a more extensive set of institutional characteristics to measure college quality, again showing significant col-lege-quality effects. found 72 These are similar to the OLS estimates, and for both men and women the effects grow substantially, to 25 percent and 16 percent,…”
Unconditional Quantile Treatment Effects Under Endogeneity (2007, neutral): “…heterogeneous effects, its theoretical properties have been studied extensively and it has been used in many empirical studies; see, for example, Powell (1986), Guntenbrunner and Jurečková (1992), Buchinsky (1994), Koenker and Xiao (2002), and Angrist, Chernozhukov, and Fernández-Val (2006).”
MEASURING CRACK COCAINE AND ITS IMPACT (2013, methodology): “Another approach would be to simultaneously incorporate the information identifying the crack index and its relationship to our social outcomes via GMM as in Black and Smith (2006).”
Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data (2014, background): “However, Black, Daniel, and Smith (2005) show that the effects of college quality for a single cohort—the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY)—remain stable over an 11- year horizon.”
Small Differences That Matter: Mistakes in Applying to College (2015, positive): “Bound and Turner (2007) find that college slots are partially elastic, suggesting full crowdout is unlikely. However, even if there were perfect crowdout, given that low-income students are estimated to have particularly large returns from attending college and selective colleges, increasing the num”