CJ Libassi

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phd student in econ and ed at EPSAatTC. formerly: SMPAGWU, College Board, CAPhighered, edpolicyford, ComunidadMadrid, pgcps.

Horizontal bar chart showing how controlling for first job characteristics reduces earnings gaps between low- and high-socioeconomic status college graduates five years after graduation. Three horizontal bars extend leftward from zero, representing negative dollar amounts. The top gray bar shows an initial gap of $4,948 for observably similar graduates. The middle gray bar shows the gap reduced to $2,251 after controlling for first job salary, with a horizontal bracket and whiskers indicating a 55% reduction. The bottom blue bar shows the gap further reduced to $1,716 after controlling for all first job features, with a second horizontal bracket indicating a 65% reduction from the middle bar. Title states 'The Role of First Job Transitions in Explaining Earnings Gaps for Similar Low- vs. High-SES Grads, Five Years After Graduation.' Subtitle indicates data is from traditionally aged BA graduates from 2010-17 from a large urban public university system. X-axis shows dollar amounts from -$5,000 to $0.
Chart showing earnings ranges for professional programs 5 and 10 years after graduation. Horizontal bars display interquartile ranges with median lines. Programs from lowest to highest 10-year median earnings: Rehabilitation/Therapeutic Professions, Veterinary Medicine, Optometry, Law/JD, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Medicine/MD. Medicine shows dramatically higher earnings than other programs, with 10-year median above $300k and upper range extending to over $500k. Most other programs cluster between roughly $100k-$150k for 10-year median earnings
Scatter plot comparing median program debt (x-axis, $50k-$300k) vs 10-year cumulative earnings (y-axis, $0.5M-$2M) for professional programs. Medicine MD programs (pink squares) cluster in upper right with high debt ($150k-$250k) and high earnings ($1.4M-$1.8M). Law programs (blue circles) cluster in the bottom left corner with lower debt and lower earnings, though some elite programs show medicine-level earnings and somewhat higher debt than other law schools. Veterinary Medicine (green diamonds), Dentistry (plus signs) and Pharmacy (X marks) are distributed across middle ranges of earnings, but across wide ranges of the distribution of debt, with almost all pharmacy programs having lower debt than almost all dentistry programs. Physical therapy and veterinary programs have law-like earnings (between half a million and a million over 10 years), and while PT has law-like debt as well, veterinary debt is generally much higher and closer to medical school.
Screenshot of an email from Alex Smith on April 23, 2025, announcing an update to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) data on the College Scorecard website. The update includes more recent data values from a new collection year, a new metric called "SCORECARD_SECTOR" to classify institutions by dominant award and ownership, and updated data derived from Federal Student Aid sources for various metrics like Operating Status Flag and Cohort Default Rate.
Scatter plot of law school graduate earnings vs. cumulative debt. Outside top programs, most graduates earn $75k-$100k regardless of debt level. Top 15 programs labeled, showing some correlation between higher earnings ($200k+) and debt, but relationship is noisy. Most programs cluster between $100k-$200k in debt.
Bar chart comparing graduate program completion rates across public, private non-profit, and for-profit institutions. Public and private non-profits show similar completion rates around 70-80% for most programs. For-profit completion rates are consistently lower, around 40-50% across all credential types.
A stacked density plot showing cumulative debt distribution for 2019 graduates by program. Professional degrees show highest cumulative debt - dentistry graduates commonly owing $200k-400k. Master's program graduates generally have much lower debt, with education degrees typically under $100k. Clear stratification between professional and master's programs.
A stacked density plot showing distribution of annual graduate program borrowing in 2019 across different programs. Professional programs like dentistry and medicine have highest borrowing ($80k-120k), while master's programs in education and business typically borrow much less ($20k-40k). Programs ordered by average borrowing amount.
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