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Author: Doyle, William R.
Resulting in 3 citations.
1. Doyle, William R.
Skinner, Benjamin T.
Does Postsecondary Education Result in Civic Benefits?
Journal of Higher Education 88,6 (2017): DOI: 863-893.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00221546.2017.1291258
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Civic Engagement; Educational Attainment; Higher Education; Volunteer Work; Voting Behavior

Public support for higher education depends in part on the idea that additional postsecondary education results in civic benefits including voting, volunteering, and donating to non-profit causes. We expanded on the literature on civic benefits of higher education by utilizing a rich set of location-based instruments to identify the relationship between additional postsecondary education and civic behaviors. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we estimated the impact of postsecondary education on civic behaviors for a group of young people aged 29 to 33 years by 2013. These new estimates indicated that an additional year of higher education increased the probability of voting by 7.7% in the 2010 election. We also found statistically significant though substantively small impacts of postsecondary education on volunteerism and donations to nonprofits, with effect sizes of .1 for voluntarism and .13 for donations.
Bibliography Citation
Doyle, William R. and Benjamin T. Skinner. "Does Postsecondary Education Result in Civic Benefits?" Journal of Higher Education 88,6 (2017): DOI: 863-893.
2. Doyle, William R.
Skinner, Benjamin T.
Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation
Working Paper, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, August 2015
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
Keyword(s): College Education; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Geocoded Data

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We expand on the literature on the causal impact of postsecondary education on earnings by introducing a richer set of location-based measures as instruments for years of education. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997, we implement six different sets of instruments based on geographic variation: presence of a four-year or two-year college in the county, inverse log distance to in-state two year colleges, and inverse log distance to all colleges. We find that these alternative measures yield differing estimates of the impact of educational attainment on earnings.
Bibliography Citation
Doyle, William R. and Benjamin T. Skinner. "Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation." Working Paper, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, August 2015.
3. Doyle, William R.
Skinner, Benjamin T.
Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation
Economics of Education Review 53 (August 2016): 254-267.
Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775715300303
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Earnings; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Geocoded Data; Geographical Variation

We expand on the literature on the causal impact of postsecondary education on earnings by introducing a richer set of location-based measures as instruments for years of education. Utilizing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997, we implement six different sets of instruments based on geographic variation: presence of a four-year or two-year college in the county, inverse log distance to in-state two-year colleges, distance-weighted tuition and distance-weighted enrollment at in-state two-year colleges, and inverse log distance to all colleges. We find that these alternative measures yield differing estimates of the impact of educational attainment on earnings. Using our preferred measure of geographic variation, one additional year of postsecondary attainment results in a 9.5% increase in yearly earnings. We find a larger impact of postsecondary attainment for women, and no measurable impact of postsecondary attainment for men.
Bibliography Citation
Doyle, William R. and Benjamin T. Skinner. "Estimating the Education-Earnings Equation Using Geographic Variation." Economics of Education Review 53 (August 2016): 254-267.