Estimating the Effects of College Characteristics over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data
利用社会保障数据，估计就读高选拔性大学对1976年和1989年入学学生长期收入的影响，发现标准回归中效应显著，但调整选择偏差后效应接近零，仅对黑人和西班牙裔学生仍较大。
Abstract We estimate the labor market effect of attending a highly selective college, using the College and Beyond Survey linked to Social Security Administration data. We extend earlier work by estimating effects for students that entered college in 1976 over a longer time horizon (from 1983 through 2007) and for a more recent cohort (1989). For both cohorts, the effects of college characteristics on earnings are sizeable (and similar in magnitude) in standard regression models. In selection-adjusted models, these effects generally fall to close to zero; however, these effects remain large for certain subgroups, such as for black and Hispanic students.