I assume in almost all professions more education correlates with better employees but I imagine most of that value is selection bias as opposed to causative.
Here’s a hub of links, though TBF there’s so much money at stake that my starting position is skeptical, even discounting rayiner’s concerns about elite institutional capture. Especially without a corresponding analysis of costs (maybe that’s here?)
I found a bunch of different studies some showed an effect some didn't. But all the ones I found linked the % of nurses with BSNs to outcomes which has two sources of possible confounds, the nurse level and the hospital level.
Maybe you've seen better studies than I could find that convinced you of this but all the studies I could find looked like bad science.
Everything positive in the world correlates with increased education level. Even lifespan. People with a BA live 3-4 years longer than without. But I'm under no impression that if we extended mandatory schooling to the age of 22 the average lifespan in the US would shoot up 3 years.
I assume in almost all professions more education correlates with better employees but I imagine most of that value is selection bias as opposed to causative.