Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation
Using two waves of the Beginning Postsecondary Student survey, this paper provides the first national estimates of the effect of the Federal Work-Study program on students’ academic and labor market outcomes.
Calculating the Costs of Remedial Placement Testing
This publication presents findings on the costs of remedial placement testing at three colleges, and it provides guidance on how other colleges could undertake similar analyses.
Increasing Institutional Capacity to Respond to Performance Funding: What States Can Do
This brief reviews what states can do to support public colleges and universities so they can effectively respond to the new demands placed on them by performance funding policies.
The Medium-Term Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From North Carolina
In this study, the authors examine medium-term returns to diplomas, certificates, and degrees for first-time college students who enrolled in the North Carolina Community College System in 2002–03.
Increasing Access to College-Level Math: Early Outcomes Using the Virginia Placement Test
This brief examines changes in entry-level college math enrollment and completion rates in Virginia’s community colleges after the introduction of a new math placement test and placement policy.