Limited Supply and Lagging Enrollment: Production Technologies and Enrollment Changes at Community Colleges during the Pandemic / Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Sarah Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Turner, Sarah.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w29639.

NBER working paper series no. w29639

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2022.

Summary:

Weak labor markets typically lead young workers to invest in skills. High unemployment during COVID diverged from prior downturns: enrollment at community colleges dropped by 9.5 percent between 2019 and 2020, with the drop larger among men. COVID disruptions generated supply-side impacts on courses of study requiring significant capital and "hands on" experiential learning, particularly programs that deliver of assembly, repair and maintenance (ARM) skills. Community colleges that had relative concentrations of credentials in ARM fields pre-pandemic experienced relatively large enrollment declines. The decline in ARM enrollment explains nearly all the difference in enrollment declines by gender during COVID.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2022.