COLLEGE QUALITY AND OVEREDUCATION

This paper examines the relationship between college quality and overe ducation. If workers attending lower quality colleges receive less hum an capital in a year of schooling, they may require more schooling tha n the typical person to be qualified for their job. Using the Panel St udy of Income Dynamics, a negative relationship is found between colle ge quality and the likelihood of being overeducated. In addition colle ge quality is found to influence the ability of overeducated workers t o exit the classification.