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Xu, Di; Solanki, Sabrina; Harlow, Ashley – American Enterprise Institute, 2020
Two-year colleges have served as vital stepping-stones for students seeking to earn a bachelor's degree. To achieve that goal, these students must complete their current program's requirements and then matriculate at a four-year college--a process known as "vertical transfer." This is commonly extolled as a cost-saving strategy, but it…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Attainment
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Jaggars, Shanna Smith; Xu, Di – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2016
Policymakers have become increasingly concerned with measuring--and holding colleges accountable for--students' labor market outcomes. In this article we introduce a piecewise growth curve approach to analyzing community college students' labor market outcomes, and we discuss how this approach differs from two popular econometric approaches:…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Outcomes of Education, Wages