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Direct linkBelfield, Clive R.; Bailey, Thomas – Community College Review, 2011
This article reviews the existing literature on the economic and other benefits of attending community college. First, the article reports on the earnings gains across all students and reviews the evidence for subgroups by gender, minority status, and credits accumulated. The article then reviews the methodological challenges associated with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Attendance, Literature Reviews, Evidence
Brynin, Malcolm; Longhi, Simonetta – Economics of Education Review, 2009
A proportion of employees are overqualified for their work. This generates a wage premium relative to the job but a penalty relative to the qualification, and is therefore, a puzzle for human capital theory. A part of this derives from the use of measures of time spent in education for the calculation of overqualification. Analysing data from four…
Descriptors: Wages, Human Capital, Foreign Countries, Employment Qualifications
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. – Education Economics, 2010
This paper presents the results of an empirical investigation trying to explain individual time-to-degree variances with business cycle fluctuations. Assuming that students determine the optimum study length at university weighing up the cost of an additional semester against the consumption benefit of studying and not yet working, the general…
Descriptors: Investigations, Student Attitudes, Economic Climate, Time to Degree
Tuck, Bradford; Berman, Matthew; Hill, Alexandra – Economics of Education Review, 2009
Local school districts differ in their ability to pay for teacher quality, and in the amenities they offer as places to live and work. Market clearing with heterogeneous quality yields geographically varying teacher salary levels that confound scarcity with unobserved differences in quality. The paper discusses identification and estimation of a…
Descriptors: Free Enterprise System, Models, Teaching Conditions, Teacher Salaries
Lipscomb, Stephen – Economics of Education Review, 2007
Recent economic research has investigated the extent to which involvement in school-sponsored clubs and sports constitutes human capital investment. Through instrumental variables, the existing literature focuses on identifying long-term impacts in terms of educational attainment and wages. Instead, I use a fixed effects strategy to test whether…
Descriptors: Mathematics Tests, Economic Research, Athletics, Science Tests
Hanushek, Erik A., Ed.; Welch, F., Ed. – Elsevier, 2006
The Handbooks in Economics series continues to provide the various branches of economics with handbooks which are definitive reference sources, suitable for use by professional researchers, advanced graduate students, or by those seeking a teaching supplement. With contributions from leading researchers, each Handbook presents an accurate,…
Descriptors: Economics, Education Work Relationship, Wages, Educational Resources
