Social externalities of community college education

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Publication Type honors thesis
School or College College of Social & Behavioral Science
Department Economics
Faculty Mentor Thomas Maloney
Creator Le, Van
Title Social externalities of community college education
Year graduated 2016
Date 2016-04
Description It has been repeatedly shown that increasing a person's level of education increases their income earning potential as well. This correlation is used to support recent tuition-subsidies for community college students that several states -such as Oregon and Tennessee -have begun to implement and the same plans that Washington D.C. legislators are attempting to implement through passage of the America's College Promise proposal. However, other social externalities are also an important part of the rationale for educational subsidies. This paper examines the social-level impacts of community college education, particularly its effectiveness in reducing the probability of poverty and unemployment and ultimately lifting people off of public subsidies such as food stamp, free/reduced school lunch, and Medicaid.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject Municipal universities and colleges
Language eng
Rights Management (c) Van Le
Format Medium application/pdf
Format Extent 25,056 bytes
Identifier honors/id/84
Permissions Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1277609
ARK ark:/87278/s6r249p7
Setname ir_htoa
ID 205736
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6r249p7
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