The Labor Market Returns to a Community College Education for Non-Completing Students

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dc.contributor.authorRiley Bahr, Peteren
dc.date.accessed2019-06-07en
dc.date.accessioned2019-07-02T17:07:06Zen
dc.date.available2019-07-02T17:07:06Zen
dc.date.issued2016-12-01en
dc.description.abstractIn this study, the author uses data from California to estimate the returns to a community college education for students who do not complete postsecondary credentials. The author finds strong, positive returns to completed credits in career and technical education (CTE) fields that are closely linked to employment sectors that are not credential-intensive, such as public safety, skilled blue collar trade and technical work, and accounting and bookkeeping, among others. In these sectors, students are able to convert the human capital acquired in their coursework into returns that far exceed the cost of the coursework itself, making some non-completing educational pathways a rational means of securing earnings gains. These results are not without caveat, however, as the author also finds that the returns to credits are less consistent for Black and Asian students than they are for White and Hispanic students, and less consistent for female students than they are for male students, indicating the need for further investigation as well as attention to context in applying the results.en
dc.description.sponsorshipCenter for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE)en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://capseecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/the-labor-market-returns-to-a-community-college-education-for-non-completing-students.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/90830en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherCommunity College Research Center Teachers College, Columbia Universityen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectcommunity college studentsen
dc.subjectcareer and technical educationen
dc.subjectBlack studentsen
dc.subjectAsian studentsen
dc.subjecteducational attainmenten
dc.titleThe Labor Market Returns to a Community College Education for Non-Completing Studentsen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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