Making Cents: The Impact of For-Profit College Graduation on Labor Market and Occupational Outcomes

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Abstract

Using data from the Beginning Postsecondary Students Longitudinal Study and the Baccalaureate and Beyond (B&B) Longitudinal Study, two nationally representative samples of students who enrolled in college in the mid-2000s, I examine the relationship between for-profit degree attainment and labor market outcomes. Unlike other projects that use measures of gross income to measure disparities, I use more accurate measures of discretionary income which more accurately reflect the impact of for-profit graduation on the everyday lives of their graduates

Author

• David K. Kirui, University of Pennsylvania