Overcoming the odds : the benefits of completing college for unlikely graduates /

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Author / Creator:	Brand, Jennie E., author.
Imprint:	New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023] ©2023
Description:	xxvii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The American sociological association's rose series in sociology Rose series in sociology.
Subject:	Education, Higher -- Social aspects. College choice -- Economic aspects. Universities and colleges -- Admission. Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Higher) Educational equalization. Education, Higher -- Social aspects. Educational equalization. Universities and colleges -- Admission. Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Higher)
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13297868

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ISBN:	9780871540089 0871540088 9781610448932
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"Debates about college access often do not carefully consider what is required to speak knowledgeably about the benefits of college degrees. First, we want to know what an individual's life would look like without a college education. Second, we need to consider unequal access to higher education. Who attends and completes college, and who does not? Third, we need to determine which benefits of college we consider and how diverse benefits differ across diverse graduates. Too often, the rewards valued in public and academic debate begin and end with wages. The traditional focus on wages does not capture all the life-enhancing effects of higher education. In this book, Jennie Brand assesses how a range of long-term benefits of four-year college degree completion differs across the population. Considering socioeconomic, family-level, social assistance, and civic outcomes measures, she concludes that colleges are far from failing disadvantaged students. Their returns to degrees are substantial: a college degree not only enables underprivileged students to circumvent unemployment, low-wage work, job instability, poverty, and social assistance but also increases their likelihood of engaging in civic society"--
Other form:	Online version: Brand, Jennie E., Overcoming the odds New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2023] 9781610448932

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Expanding Access to Higher Education
Chapter 2. Diverse Benefits for Diverse Graduates
Chapter 3. College Counterfactuals and Estimating Effects
Chapter 4. Unequal College Chances
Chapter 5. Cultivating Privilege and Circumventing Precarity
Chapter 6. Forming Families and Preventing Poverty
Chapter 7. Reducing Social Assistance
Chapter 8. Engaging in Civic Society
Chapter 9. Inequality and Investment
Notes
References
Index