| Michael Hilmer
Brigham Young University
Community college transfers and labor market outcomes
FINAL REPORT:
Recent evidence suggests that students with Baccalaureate degree aspirations are increasingly choosing two-year colleges as their point-of-entry to post-secondary education. An important question therefore is how two-year college attendance impacts a student's economic future. This study is one of the first to examine early labor market outcomes for Baccalaureate degree recipients who transferred from a two-year college relative to those who did not. Selectivity corrected results for a sample of students drawn from the Baccalaureate and Beyond survey suggest that the entry-level earnings of two-year college transfers do not differ significantly from those of non-transfers and four-year college transfers. These findings suggest that initial two-year college attendance may indeed be a good investment for students who expecting to persist to graduation.
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