Food Deserts, Community Colleges And Innovative Slackers New research by Ann Stevens, Michal Kurlaender and Michel Grosz is cited in FiveThirtyEight
FiveThirtyEight, May 6, 2015
Every Monday, the National Bureau of Economic Research, a
nonprofit organization made up of some of North America’s most
respected economists, releases its latest batch of working
papers. The papers aren’t peer-reviewed, so their conclusions are
preliminary (and occasionally flat-out wrong). But they offer an
early peek into some of the research that will shape economic
thinking in the years ahead. Here are a few of this week’s most
interesting papers.
Title: “Career Technical Education and
Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from California Community
Colleges”
Authors: Ann Huff Stevens, Michal
Kurlaender, Michel Grosz
What they found: Vocational education at
community colleges — that is, programs geared toward a specific
skill — can generate large increases in earnings for students,
especially for those trained for health occupations.
Michal Kurlaender’s work focuses on education policy and
evaluation, particularly practices that address existing
racial/ethnic and socioeconomic inequality at various stages of
the educational attainment process.
Michel Grosz is a PhD student in the UC Davis Economics
department. His research focuses on higher education in
California and the impact of the recent recession. Before coming
to Davis he graduated from Pomona College and worked at the Urban
Institute’s Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy
Center.
