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Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from California Community Colleges / Ann Huff Stevens, Michal Kurlaender, Michel Grosz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevens, Ann Huff.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21137.
- NBER working paper series no. w21137
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Career Technical Education and Labor Market Outcomes
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.
- Summary:
- 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 returns to specific certificates and degrees. We estimate returns to CTE programs using administrative data from the California Community College system linked to earnings records. We employ estimation approaches including individual fixed effects and individual-specific trends, and find average returns to CTE certificate and degrees that range from 14 to 45 percent. The largest returns are for programs in the healthcare sector; estimated returns in non-health related programs range from 15 to 23 percent.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- April 2015.
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