Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Darolia, Rajeev; Koedel, Cory; Martorell, Paco; Wilson, Katie; Pérez‐Arce, Francisco

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2508434

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“…The results are in line with prior studies of online education in showing that in-person courses yield better mean outcomes than online courses (Figlio, Rush, and Yin 2013;Xu and Jaggars 2013;Alpert, Couch, and Harmon 2016;Streich 2014b;Joyce et al 2015;Hart, Friedmann, and Hill forthcoming). Our results also suggest one reason why, as other studies have found, for-profit students may have poorer labor market outcomes (Turner 2012;Lang and Weinstein 2013;Cellini and Chaudhary 2014;Darolia et al 2015;Deming et al 2016).…”

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“…For example, job applicants with a business degree were 22 percent less likely to be called back. Using a similar resume-audit design, Darolia et al (2015) find for-profit graduates are no more likely to get a callback than are applicants without a college degree. These differences in hiring may or may not translate into differences in earnings (Turner 2012;Lang and Weinstein 2013;Cellini and Chaudhary 2014;Cellini and Turner 2016), but for-profit graduates would need substantially greater earnings than students from other institutions in order to offset the higher costs of attending a forprofit school (Cellini 2012).…”

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Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success

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American Economic Review

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Online college courses are a rapidly growing feature of higher education. One out of three students now takes at least one course online during their college career, and that share has increased threefold over the past decade (Allen and Seaman 2013). The promise of cost savings, partly through economies of scale, fuels ongoing investments in online education by both public and private institutions (Deming et al. 2015). Nonselective and for-profit institutions, in particular, have aggressively used online courses.In this paper we estimate the effects of taking a college course online, instead of in a traditional in-person classroom setting, on student achievement and progress in college. We examine both mean effects and how online courses change the distribution of student outcomes. While online course-taking is both prevalent and growing, there remains relatively little evidence about how taking a course online, instead

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“…Contemporaneous with our study, Darolia et al (2014) conducted a field experiment examining employer perceptions of sub-baccalaureate degrees from for-profit versus public institutions. Although our studies differ in many respects, when considering the range of jobs (business and health) and credentials (sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates) where the studies overlap, the results are broadly similar.…”

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“…Although our studies differ in many respects, when considering the range of jobs (business and health) and credentials (sub-baccalaureate degrees and certificates) where the studies overlap, the results are broadly similar. 2 There are four main differences between our study and Darolia et al (2014). First, we examine various levels of postsecondary qualifications including the BA, whereas Darolia et al (2014) limit their analysis to certificates and associates degrees granted by for-profit institutions.…”

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“…2 There are four main differences between our study and Darolia et al (2014). First, we examine various levels of postsecondary qualifications including the BA, whereas Darolia et al (2014) limit their analysis to certificates and associates degrees granted by for-profit institutions. Our inclusion of resumes with BAs allows us to study jobs with higher skill qualifications and to examine variation in impacts by the selectivity of four-year public institutions.…”

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The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study

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Yuchtman

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American Economic Review

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We study employers ' The large increase in the US college wage premium since 1980 strongly suggests that the supply of educated labor has not kept pace with its demand (Goldin and Katz 2008; Autor 2014). One impediment is that inflation-adjusted state funding of postsecondary education has stagnated since the mid-1990s and declined substantially in the last decade. The result is higher net tuition and fees for college students in public institutions (Baum and Ma 2014). Somewhat counteracting that trend is a marked increase in the generosity of federal Title IV financial aid. The for-profit sector has taken advantage of federal government largesse, as well as the increased demand for educated workers, to enlarge its presence in the postsecondary education market. For-profit colleges offer highly structured programs at convenient times and formats, and many have argued-at least going back to Freeman (1974)-that the for-profits respond more rapidly to changing employer demands than do public sector schools. For-profit institutions have expanded recently in fast-growing areas such as health and information technology.

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Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance

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2018

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An audit study is a specific type of field experiment primarily used to test for discriminatory behavior when survey and interview questions induce social desirability bas. In this chapter, I first review the language and definitions related to audit studies and encourage adoption of a common language. I then discuss why researchers use the audit method as well as when researchers can and should use this method. Next, I give an overview of the history of audit studies, focusing on major developments and changes in the overall body of work. Finally, I discuss the limitations of correspondence audits and provide some thoughts on future directions.

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Do Employers Prefer Workers Who Attend For-Profit Colleges? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Cited by 22 publications

References 24 publications

Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success

Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success

The Value of Postsecondary Credentials in the Labor Market: An Experimental Study

Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance

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