Bound, John and Sarah Turner. 2007. “Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment.” Journal of Public Economics 91, Issues 5-6, (June), pp. 877-899. [NBER Working Paper No. 12424]. paper(pdf)
Fitzpatrick, Maria and Sarah Turner. forthcoming. “Blurring the Boundary: Changes in the Transition from
College Participation to Adulthood.” In Sheldon Danziger and Cecilia Rouse
(Eds.) The Economics of the Transition to Adulthood.
Turner, Sarah. 2007. “Higher Education: Policies Generating the 21st Century Workforce.” In H. Holzer and D. Nightingale (Eds.) Workforce Policies for a Changing Economy. DC: Urban Institute Press. paper(pdf)
Pallais, Amanda and Sarah Turner. forthcoming. “Access to Elites: The Growth of Programs to Increase
Opportunities for Low-Income Students at Selective Universities” In Stacy
Dickert-Conlin and Ross Rubenstein (Eds.) Economic
Inequality and Higher Education: Access, Persistence, and Success.
Turner, Sarah. 2006. “Higher Tuition, Higher Aid and the
Quest to Improve Opportunities for Low Income Students in Selective, Public
Higher Education” In Ronald Ehrenberg (Ed.) What's Happening to Public Higher Education.
Pallais, Amanda and Sarah Turner. 2006. “Opportunities for
Low Income Students at
Krueger, Alan, Jesse Rothstein and Sarah Turner. 2006. “Race, Income and College in 25 Years: Evaluating Justice O'Connor's Conjecture.” American Law and Economics Review 8(2):282-311. paper(pdf)
Bound, John; Jeff Groen, Gabor Kezdi and Sarah Turner. 2004. “Trade in University Training:
Turner, Sarah. 2004. “Going to college and finishing
college: Explaining different educational outcomes.” In C. Hoxby (Ed.) College
Decisions: How Students Actually Make Them and How They Could.
Howell, Cameron and Sarah Turner. 2004. “Legacies in Black and White: The Racial Composition of the Legacy Pool” Research in Higher Education [NBER Working Paper 9448] paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah and John Bound. 2003. “Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans.” Journal of Economic History, Vol. 63, No. 1 (March). [NBER Working Paper No. 9044] paper(pdf)
Pusser, Brian and Sarah Turner. 2003. “The Challenge of Convergence:
Nonprofit and Forprofit Governance in Higher Education.” In R. Ehrenberg (Ed.),
Governing Academia.
Bound, John and Sarah Turner. 2002 “Going to War and Going to College: Did the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?” Journal of Labor Economics 20 (4). paper(pdf)
Seftor, Neil and Sarah Turner. 2002. “Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment.” Journal of Human Resources 5 (2): 230-36. paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah, Lauren Meserve, and William Bowen. 2001. “Winning and Giving: A Study of the Responsiveness of Giving to Performance on the Field.” Social Science Quarterly 82 (4): 812-826. paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah. 2000. “Federal Financial Aid: How Well Does it Work?” in J.C. Smart (Ed.), Higher Education: Handbook of Theory and Research. New York: Agathon.
Turner, Sarah and William Bowen. 1999. “Choice of Major: The Changing (Unchanging) Gender Gap.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review. 59(2): 289-313. paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah. 2000. “The Evolving Production Functions of Schools of Education” In W. Tierney (Ed). Faculty Roles and Rewards in Schools and Colleges of Education. New York: SUNY Press.
Turner, Sarah. 1998. “The Vision and Reality of Pell Grants: Unforeseen Consequences for Students and Institutions” In L. Gladieux (Ed) Memory, Reason, Imagination: A Quarter Century of Pell Grants. Washington, D.C.: College Board.
Bound, John, David Jaeger, Susanna Loeb, and Sarah Turner. 1998. “Coding Geographic Areas Across Census Years: Creating Consistent Definitions of Metropolitan Areas,” NBER Working Paper 6772. paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah, Thomas Nygren and William Bowen. 1993. “The NTEE Classification System: Tests of Reliability/Validity in the Field of Higher Education.” Voluntas 4:1 (73-94).
Bowen, William, Sarah Turner, and Marcia Witte. 1992. “The B.A. Ph.D. Nexus.” Journal of Higher Education (January-February): 65-86. paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah and William Bowen. 1990. “The 'Flight from the Arts and Sciences': Trends in Degrees Conferred.” Science 250 (October 26). paper(pdf)
Tebbs, Jeffrey and Sarah Turner. 2006. “The Challenge of Improving the Representation of Low-Income Students at Flagship Universities: AccessUVa and the University of Virginia.” In Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro (Eds) College Access: Opportunity or Privilege. New York: College Board. paper(pdf)
Krueger, Alan, Jesse Rothstein and Sarah Turner. 2006. “Was Justice O’Connor Right? Race and highly Selective college Admissions in 25 Years.” In Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro (Eds) College Access: Opportunity or Privilege. New York: College Board. paper(pdf)
Breneman, David; Brian Pusser and Sarah Turner (Eds). 2007. Earnings from Learning: The Rise of For-profit Universities. SUNY Series, Frontiers in Education. Authored chapters “The Contemporary Provision of For-profit Higher Education: Mapping the Competitive Market” and “The New Market for Higher Education: For-Profit Colleges and the Transformation from Mature to Emerging Industry.”
Turner, Sarah. 2006. “Improving Opportunities for Low Income Students at Selective universities: Challenges for Public and Private Universities” In Michael Fultz and Henry Lufler (Eds) Affordability and Access in American higher Education in the 21st Century. Madison: University of Wisconsin.
Tebbs, Jeffrey and Sarah Turner. 2005. “College Education for Low Income Students: A Caution on the Use of Data on Pell Grant Recipients,” Change (June). Paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah. 2002. “Connecting Higher Education and the Labor Market.” Change 34(4) July.
Turner, Sarah. 2001. “Will We Pay Too Much for SUNY’s Low Tuition?” Newsday, February 12.
Turner, Sarah. 2000. “A Comment on ‘Poor School Funding, Child Poverty and Mathematics Achievement’” Educational Researcher June-July. Paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah. 1999. “Board Decision Deserves Praise.” The Cavalier Daily, Op-Ed. Tuesday, October 19.
Bowen, William, Thomas Nygren, Sarah Turner, Elizabeth Duffy.1994. The Charitable Nonprofits: An Analysis of Institutions. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
Hinton, Ivora; Jessica
Howell, Elizabeth Merwin, Steven Stern, Sarah Turner, Ishan Williams, and
Melvin Wilson. 2007. “The Educational Pipeline for Health Care
professionals: Understanding the Source of Racial Differences.” Paper(pdf)
Blanchard, Emily; John
Bound and Sarah Turner. 2007. “Opening
(and Closing) Doors: Country-Specific Shocks in U.S. Doctorate Education.”
Under review for publication in Ron Ehrenberg (Ed) Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future.
Bound, John; Mike
Lovenheim and Sarah Turner. 2007. “Understanding
the Increased Time to the Baccalaureate Degree.” Paper(pdf)
Bound, John and Sarah Turner. 2006. “International Flows of
Skilled Workers: Estimates of the Effects on Earnings in the
Bound, John; Sarah
Turner and Patrick Walsh. 2006. “Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate
Education.” [Submitted to volume to be published by NBER] Paper(pdf)
Simmons, Sarah and Sarah Turner. 2003. “Taking Classes and Taking Care of the Kids: Do Childcare Benefits Increase Collegiate Attainment.” Paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah. 2003. “Pell Grants as Fiscal Stabilizers.” Paper(pdf)
Carnevale, Anthony P., Richard Fry and Sarah Turner, “Growing Inequality in Collegiate Attainment: Evidence on The Role of Family Income.” Mimeo 2001 (revised). Paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah. “Changes in the Returns to College Quality,” Mimeo 2001 (revised). Paper(pdf)
Turner, Sarah and Harriet Zuckerman, “On to Graduate School: Differences between Men and Women in Completion of Graduate Programs.” Mimeo 1999.
Turner, Sarah. “The Training of Teachers: The Changing Post-Baccalaureate Degree Output in Education.” October 1998.
Turner, Sarah. “Does Federal Aid Affect College Costs? Evidence from the Pell Program.” October 1998. Paper(pdf)