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Does College Still Pay?

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  • Barrow Lisa

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago)

  • Rouse Cecilia Elena

    (Princeton University)

Abstract

Since the mid-1990s college tuition costs have risen quickly while the rate of increase in the value of education has slowed considerably. Cecilia Rouse and Lisa Barrow explore the reasons and ask if college remains a good investment.

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  • Barrow Lisa & Rouse Cecilia Elena, 2005. "Does College Still Pay?," The Economists' Voice, De Gruyter, vol. 2(4), pages 1-9, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:evoice:v:2:y:2005:i:4:n:3
    DOI: 10.2202/1553-3832.1097
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    1. Leila Bengali & Mary C. Daly, 2014. "Is it still worth going to college?," FRBSF Economic Letter, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
    2. Susan M. Dynarski & Judith E. Scott-Clayton, 2008. "Complexity and Targeting in Federal Student Aid: A Quantitative Analysis," NBER Chapters, in: Tax Policy and the Economy, Volume 22, pages 109-150, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Bridget Terry Long, 2007. "Do loans increase college access and choice?: examining the introduction of universal student loans," New England Public Policy Center Working Paper 07-1, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    4. Francine D. Blau & Anne E. Winkler, 2011. "Women and Men in the Economy," Chapters, in: Gail M. Hoyt & KimMarie McGoldrick (ed.), International Handbook on Teaching and Learning Economics, chapter 66, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    5. Vivian Yuen Ting Liu & Alexandra Haralampoudis & Isabel Polon, 2024. "Combating Summer Melt: The Impact of Near-Peer Mentor Matriculation Program in New York City," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 65(5), pages 794-826, August.
    6. Philip A. Trostel, 2007. "The fiscal impacts of college attainment," New England Public Policy Center Working Paper 07-2, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
    7. Olivia Evans & Romany McGuffog & Monica Gendi & Mark Rubin, 2022. "A First Class Measure: Evidence for a Comprehensive Social Class Scale in Higher Education Populations," Research in Higher Education, Springer;Association for Institutional Research, vol. 63(8), pages 1427-1452, December.
    8. Matthew Davis & Blake Heller, 2019. "No Excuses Charter Schools and College Enrollment: New Evidence from a High School Network in Chicago," Education Finance and Policy, MIT Press, vol. 14(3), pages 414-440, Summer.
    9. LG Deidda & D. Paolini, 2012. "Education race, supply of skills and the wage skill premium," Working Paper CRENoS 201206, Centre for North South Economic Research, University of Cagliari and Sassari, Sardinia.
    10. Christopher Tamborini & ChangHwan Kim & Arthur Sakamoto, 2015. "Education and Lifetime Earnings in the United States," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 52(4), pages 1383-1407, August.

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    Returns to education; College education;

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