Caroline Hoxby from Stanford University just published a working paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) claiming to analyze “The Returns to Online Postsecondary Education”. tl;dr This report is a hot mess that that conflates online students, enrollments, programs, institutions and uses a bizarre and misleading data set for its analysis.
The headline for most coverage of this report will likely follow the highlighted section of the abstract:
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https://mindwires.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Business-Economics.jpg5050Phil Hillhttps://mindwires.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/mindwireslrg-whitepad.pngPhil Hill2017-02-27 00:00:002020-11-20 13:41:27New NBER Study on Online Education is Deeply Flawed