The Effect of Attending the Flagship State University on Earnings: A Discontinuity-Based Approach

By Mark Hoekstra. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2009

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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• Field of Study, Earnings, and Self-Selection* (2016, unknown): “4Discontinuities in admission thresholds have also been used in other contexts than field of study, such as the effect of admission to particular institutions (e.g. Saavedra, 2008; Hoekstra, 2009; Zimmerman, 2014), the impact of another year of college (Öckert, 2010), the marriage market consequence”
• The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom (2012, unknown): “…even within the public four-year sector, are consistent with the high returns to attending a flagship public university found in previous studies (Hoekstra, 2009; Brewer, Eide and Ehrenberg, 1999) and reinforce the importance of understanding how students select across different types of…”
• Estimating the Return to College Selectivity Over the Career Using Administrative Earning Data (2011, background): “Results from Hoekstra (2009), Black and Smith (2004) and Long (2008) all suggest that the effect of college selectivity on earnings is lower for women than for men.”
• From the Editors: Endogeneity in international business research (2012, background): “Hoekstra (2009) provides an example of using regression discontinuity design to evaluate flagship university attendance on salaries.”
• The Labor of Division: Returns to Compulsory High School Math Coursework (2019, background): “More recent research estimates large returns to college education through regression discontinuity designs around admissions thresholds (Hoekstra, 2009; Zimmerman, 2014).”
• Does Attending Elite Colleges Pay in China (2012, methodology): “11 Employing the regression discontinuity design, Hoekstra (2009) and Saavedra (2009) show that college selectivity has a positive effect on earnings early in people’s careers.”
• Regression discontinuity design with many thresholds (2017, unknown): “Important empirical analyses of fuzzy RDD with multiple treatments include those of Angrist and Lavy (1999), Chen and Van der Klaauw (2008), and Hoekstra (2009); nev- ertheless, this is the first paper to define compliance and study causal identification in a general framework for multi-cutoff…”
• Can High Schools Reduce College Enrollment Gaps With a New Counseling Model? (2013, background): “However, disadvantaged students plan and enroll in two-year or less selective colleges at higher rates (author’s calculations using NELS), and these types of colleges are associated with lower educational attainment and earnings (Dougherty, 1994; Hoekstra, 2009; Long, 2008; Melguizo, 2008; Pascarell”
• Going to a Better School: Effects and Behavioral Responses (2013, unknown): “Speci cally, Hoekstra (2009), Jackson (2010), and 1 Partially along these lines, Cullen, Jacob and Levitt (2006) explore how school choice a ects students' attitudes and behaviors.”
• Socioeconomic inequality in access to “high-status” colleges : a cross-country comparison of primary and secondary effects (2015, background): “Second, previous research has sugested that graduates from high-status universities gain substantial abor market rewards (Hoekstra, 2009; Hussain et al., 2008), and hus these institutions provide long-run advantages that high SES amilies are likely to seek out (Lucas, 2001).”
• Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States* (2020, background): “Second, a smaller literature has measured the returns to attending certain colleges using quasi-experimental methods (e.g., Black and Smith 2004; Hoekstra 2009; Hastings, Neilson, and Zimmerman 2013; Zimmerman 2014; Kirkeboen, Leuven and Mogstad 2016; Cellini and Turner 2019).”