This paper provides new estimates of the ‘diversion effect’ argument advanced by critics of
community colleges. As emphasized by Rouse (J. Business Econ. Statist. 13 (1995) 217), …

… Andrew M. Gill is an associate professor of economics at California State University,
Fullerton. The initial draft of this paper was written while Gill was visiting associate professor of …

This study, using microdata from the 1980 and 1984 waves of the National Longitudinal
Survey of Youth, examines the effects of drug use on wages and employment. Contrary to most …

The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among
other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This …

Using US data drawn from the 1978 young men NLS sample, this paper replicates a key
finding reported by Rees and Shah in their analysis of self‐employment using large‐scale …

… The data used in this article can be obtained beginning August 2003 through July 2006
from Andrew M. Gill, Department of Economics, California State University, Fullerton, Fullerton, …

The education literature provides numerous estimates of community college diversion and
democratization effects measured in terms of educational attainment. Kane and Rouse [J …

The author of this study attempts to isolate the role of discrimination in determining racial
differences in occupational structure. Logit techniques are used to identify and distinguish …

The authors extend the literature on the efficacy of high school economics instruction in two
directions. First, they assess how much economic knowledge that California students …

In recent years, American community colleges have evolved as the missions facing them
expanded and their constituencies changed. No longer is their role solely to prepare students …