Deconstructing and reconstructing the College Scorecard

By Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst and Matthew M. Chingos. The federal government released earnings data on U.S. colleges and universities for the first time last month. The new College Scorecard adds an important new dimension to previous government data collections on colleges and universities, which focused on inputs such as number of faculty and student characteristics and the immediate outcomes of retention and graduation rather than longer term outcomes including earnings in the labor market. More...