Gainfully Employed? Assessing the Employment and Earnings of For-Profit College Students Using Administrative Data

Stephanie Riegg Cellini is an associate professor of public policy and economics at George Washington University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Nicholas Turner is a senior economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. He previously worked in the Office of Tax Analysis at the U.S. Treasury, where this work was completed. We would like to thank Leah Brooks, Latika Chaudhary, Dylan Conger, John Earle, Brent Evans, Sarena Goodman, Ted Joyce, Janet McCubbin, and seminar participants at AEFP, APPAM, CAPSEE, the City University of New York, the DC Education Economics Working Group, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, George Mason University, George Washington University, Temple University, the University of Virginia, the U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the U.S. Treasury for helpful comments. We thank Jerry Wei and Rachel Schwartz for excellent research assistance. Stephanie Cellini gratefully acknowledges support from the Smith Richardson Foundation. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve Board, or the National Bureau of Economic Research. We were granted a waiver of JHR’s data availability policy due to the confidential nature of individual enrollment and tax records.

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• May 25, 2016