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Title: LATE INTERVENTIONS MATTER TOO: THE CASE OF COLLEGE COACHING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: We present evidence from an ongoing field experiment in college coaching/ mentoring. The experiment is designed to ask whether coaching plus cash incentives provided to high school students late in their senior year have meaningful impacts on college going and persistence. For women and recent immigrants (male or female), we find large impacts on the decision to enroll in college and to remain in college. Intention to treat estimates are an increase in 12 percentage points in the college going rate (against a base rate of 50 percent) while treatment on the treated estimates are 24 percentage points. Offering cash bonuses alone without mentoring has no effect. There are no effects for non-immigrant men in the sample. The absence of effects for men is not explained by an interaction of the program with academic ability, work habits, or family and guidance support for college applications. However, differential returns to college can explain some or even all of the differences in treatment effects for men and women.

Url: https://conference.nber.org/conferences/2012/SI2012/ED/Sacerdote_Carrell.pdf

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Authors: Carrell, Scott; Sacerdote, Bruce

Publisher: Dartmouth College

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education

Countries: United States