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 …

This report reviews the available evidence on the economic benefits of postsecondary
education below the level of the baccalaureate degree, concentrating on the effects of …

Career technical education (CTE) programs at community colleges are increasingly seen as
an attractive alternative to four-year colleges, yet little systematic evidence exists on the …

This article provides one of the first rigorous estimations of the labor-market returns to
community college certificates and diplomas, as well as estimations of the returns to the …

The authors provide background on the history and development of community colleges in
the United States in the last half century and survey available evidence on the impacts of …

This study provides one of the first estimates of the returns to different types of community
college credentials—short-term certificates, long-term certificates, and associate degrees …

The steady expansion of college enrollment rates over the last generation has been
heralded as a major step toward reducing chronic economic disparities. But many of the …

Although several types of mental illness, including substance abuse disorders, have been
linked with poor labor market outcomes, no current research has been able to examine the …

Using four waves of the National Educational Longitudinal Survey (NELS), we study the
influence of parental education, family income, and selected aspects of social capital on the …

A variety of economic concepts, theories, and models have been useful in the study of the
finance of higher education (Cohn and Geske, 1990; Leslie and Brinkman, 1988; Paulsen …