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Title: Are There Returns to Attending a Private College or University?
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Imberman, Scott Andrew |
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Are There Returns to Attending a Private College or University? Working Paper, Social Science Research Network, July 2006. Also: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=975492 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Social Science Electronic Publishing, Inc. Keyword(s): Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB); College Education; Earnings; Family Influences; Geographical Variation; High School; High School and Beyond (HSB); National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS72); School Characteristics/Rating/Safety; Test Scores/Test theory/IRT Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Strains on the Federal budget have created worries that Federal funding of aid for higher education will fall in the future. If this happens, state governments will need to try to allocate their higher education spending more efficiently. One possible way to do this would be to shift funding away from public provision towards demand-side subsidies so that more students could attend private colleges. However, this will only work if private colleges provide benefits to students over public. I use highly detailed and rich data sets to assess whether there are benefits to attending private colleges over public ones. Taking my estimates to be upper bounds, while the returns for men are positive, I find little evidence of any wage returns for women. These results do not appear to be driven by differences between public and private students in labor force participation, or unemployment, although the estimate for bachelor degree completion is positive and significant for both genders. Thus, I find that women are no worse off at a public college than a private one. |
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Imberman, Scott Andrew. "Are There Returns to Attending a Private College or University?" Working Paper, Social Science Research Network, July 2006. |