Are They Still Worth It? The Long-Run Earnings Benefits of an Associate Degree, Vocational Diploma or Certificate, and Some College

Changhwan Kim; Christopher R. Tamborini

doi:10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.04

Article Information

vol. 5 no. 3 64-85

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.04

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online April 11, 2019.

© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Kim, ChangHwan, and Christopher R. Tamborini. 2019. “Are They Still Worth It? The Long-Run Earnings Benefits of an Associate Degree, Vocational Diploma or Certificate, and Some College.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(3): 64–85. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.3.04. The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not represent the views of the Social Security Administration (SSA). Access to SSA data linked to Census Bureau survey data is subject to restrictions imposed by Title 13 of the U.S. Code. The data are accessible at a secured site and must undergo disclosure review before their release. For researchers with access to these data, our programs used in this analysis are available on request. Direct correspondence to: ChangHwan Kim at chkim@ku.edu, Department of Sociology, University of Kansas, 1415 Jayhawk Blvd., Room 716, Lawrence, KS 66045; and Christopher R. Tamborini at chris.tamborini@ssa.gov, Senior Researcher, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, U.S. Social Security Administration, 8th floor, 250 E. St., SW, Washington, D.C. 20254. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Changhwan Kim^a and
Christopher R. Tamborini^b

^aProfessor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kansas
^bSenior researcher in the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics at the U.S. Social Security Administration