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 …

In this chapter, I review the economics literature on for-profit college education in the United
States, assessing what we know about institutional behavior and student outcomes after two …

For-profit, or proprietary, colleges are the fastest-growing postsecondary schools in the
nation, enrolling a disproportionately high share of disadvantaged and minority students and …

A lengthy literature estimating the returns to education has largely ignored the for-profit
sector. In this paper, we estimate the earnings gains to for-profit college attendance using …

Instead of thinking about education as the mastery of a body of knowledge where the subject
matter becomes the focus of our attention, The Gamification of Higher Education encourages …

Over the last two decades, for-profit colleges (FPCs) have substantially increased their share
of the higher education market. One potential explanation is that FPC sector may be more …

Abstract Using the Beginning Post-Secondary Student Survey and Transcript Data, we find
no statistically significant differential return to Certificates or Associate's degrees between for …

The recent expansion of for-profit colleges in US higher education has ignited much debate
over the potential contributions, and limitations, of profit-maximizing educational businesses …

For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education
markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have …

Despite the recent growth of for-profit colleges, scholars are only beginning to understand
the labor market consequences of attending these institutions. Using data from the National …