Journal of Economic Perspectives
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The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 13,
no. 1, Winter 1999
(pp. 63–84)
(Complimentary)
Abstract
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 community colleges on educational attainment and earnings. They also weigh the evidence on the impact of public subsidies on enrollment at community colleges and explore some weaknesses in the current higher-education financing structure. Finally, the authors reflect on how students who have been responding to the rise in payoff to education are to be absorbed by our postsecondary training institutions.Citation
Kane, Thomas, J., and Cecilia Elena Rouse. 1999. "The Community College: Educating Students at the Margin between College and Work." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 13 (1): 63–84. DOI: 10.1257/jep.13.1.63JEL Classification
- I21 Analysis of Education
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