In the News: PSC’s Value-added Earnings Study called “Robust, Reliable, and Repeatable” by Higher Education Expert
June 22, 2026
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As the national conversation on higher education shifts toward holding institutions accountable for student post-graduate earnings, lawmakers and innovators are still straining to determine how such accountability can be realized. Michael Horn argues that PSC’s statewide study of Texas public institutions’ students’ value-added earnings is a substantive step in the right direction, comparing students’ wages to an accurate counterfactual and calculating earnings for all entrants—not just graduates.