Community Colleges and Upward Mobility

By Jack Mountjoy. Social Science Research Network, 2019

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Two-year community colleges enroll nearly half of all first-time undergraduates in the United States, but to ambiguous effect: low persistence rates and the potential for diverting students from four-year institutions cast ambiguity over two-year colleges’ contributions to upward mobility. This paper develops a new instrumental variables approach to identifying causal effects along multiple treatment margins, and applies it to linked education and earnings registries to disentangle the net impacts of two-year college access into two competing causal margins: significant value added for two-year entrants who otherwise would not have attended college, but negative impacts on students diverted from immediate four-year entry. (JEL I23, I26, I28, J24, J31)

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Do Parents Value School Effectiveness? (2020, methodology): “This model relies on an exclusion restriction for distance, a common identification strategy in the literature on educational choice (Card, 1995; Neal, 1997; Booker et al., 2011; Mountjoy, 2017; Walters, 2018).”