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Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE)

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July 2011–June 2017

The Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment (CAPSEE) carried out research in partnership with five states—Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, and Virginia—to better understand the employment and earnings benefits associated with a broad range of postsecondary education pathways. CAPSEE was housed at the Community College Research Center at Teachers College and was operated in collaboration with scholars at the University of Michigan, Harvard, Stanford, CUNY, the University of North Carolina, and New Horizons Economic Research. For more information, visit capseecenter.org.

This project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

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Publications

August 2020

Labor Market Trajectories for Community College Graduates: New Evidence Spanning the Great Recession

November 2019

The Labor Market Returns to For-Profit Higher Education: Evidence for Transfer Students

September 2019

Nonpecuniary Returns to Postsecondary Education: Examining Early Non-Wage Labor Market Outcomes Among College-Goers in the United States

March 2019

Performance Standards in Need-Based Student Aid

September 2018

Credential Production by Field and Labor Market Alignment at Minority-Serving Institutions: A Descriptive Analysis

May 2018

How and Why Do Adjunct Instructors Affect Students’ Academic Outcomes? Evidence From Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges

April 2017

Model Specifications for Estimating Labor Market Returns to Associate Degrees: How Robust Are Fixed Effects Estimates?

March 2017

The Labor Market Returns to Sub-Baccalaureate College: A Review

March 2017

Performance Requirements in Need-Based Aid: What Roles Do They Serve, and Do They Work?

March 2017

Does the Federal Work-Study Program Really Work—and for Whom?

March 2017

The Impact of Pell Grant Eligibility on Community College Students’ Financial Aid Packages, Labor Supply, and Academic Outcomes

January 2017

Estimating Returns to College Attainment: Comparing Survey and State Administrative Data Based Estimates

December 2016

Pell Grants as Performance-Based Aid? An Examination of Satisfactory Academic Progress Requirements in the Nation’s Largest Need-Based Aid Program

November 2016

Goodbye to Summer Vacation? The Effects of Summer Enrollment on College and Employment Outcomes

October 2016

Understanding the Relative Value of Alternative Pathways in Postsecondary Education: Evidence From the State of Virginia

July 2016

Early Labor Market and Debt Outcomes for Bachelor’s Degree Recipients: Heterogeneity by Institution Type and Major, and Trends Over Time

June 2016

Classifying STEM Programs in Community Colleges to Develop a State-Level Middle-Skill STEM Workforce Strategy

June 2016

Do Students Benefit From Going Backward? The Academic and Labor Market Consequences of Four- to Two-Year College Transfer

April 2016

How and Why Does Two-Year College Entry Influence Baccalaureate Aspirants’ Academic and Labor Market Outcomes?

January 2016

Examining the Earnings Trajectories of Community College Students Using a Piecewise Growth Curve Modeling Approach

December 2015

What About Certificates? Evidence on the Labor Market Returns to Non-Degree Community College Awards in Two States

November 2015

Weathering the Great Recession With Human Capital? Evidence on Labor Market Returns to Education From Arkansas

October 2015

The Labor Market Returns to Math in Community College: Evidence Using the Education Longitudinal Study of 2002

September 2015

The Impact of Co-locating American Job Centers on Community College Campuses in North Carolina

July 2015

Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation

March 2015

The Labor Market Returns to Math Courses in Community College

February 2015

On Their Own Terms: Two-Year Minority Serving Institutions

February 2015

What About the Non-Completers? The Labor Market Returns to Progress in Community College

November 2014

The Medium-Term Labor Market Returns to Community College Awards: Evidence From North Carolina

October 2014

On Second Chances and Stratification: How Sociologists Think About Community Colleges

September 2014

Evaluating For-Profit Higher Education: Evidence From the Education Longitudinal Study

July 2013

Improving Students’ College Math Readiness: A Review of the Evidence on Postsecondary Interventions and Reforms

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Presentations

April 2017
April 07, 2017

Plenary Session: Are Colleges Guiding Students to Choose Valuable Programs and Pathways?

April 2017
April 07, 2017

Plenary Session: Are Colleges Structured to Optimize Investments?

April 2017
April 06, 2017

Plenary Session: Does Society Invest Wisely in College?

April 2017
April 06, 2017

Plenary Session: Do Students Invest Wisely in College?

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June 2007
June 14, 2007

Shanna Smith Jaggars

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