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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w17533
来源ID	Working Paper 17533
	Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion
	Susan Dynarski; Joshua M. Hyman; Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
发表日期	2011-10-20
出版年	2011
语种	英语
摘要	This paper examines the effect of early childhood investments on college enrollment and degree completion. We use the random assignment in the Project STAR experiment to estimate the effect of smaller classes in primary school on college entry, college choice, and degree completion. We improve on existing work in this area with unusually detailed data on college enrollment spells and the previously unexplored outcome of college degree completion. We find that assignment to a small class increases the probability of attending college by 2.7 percentage points, with effects more than twice as large among blacks. Among students enrolled in the poorest third of schools, the effect is 7.3 percentage points. Smaller classes increase the likelihood of earning a college degree by 1.6 percentage points and shift students towards high-earning fields such as STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), business and economics. We find that test score effects at the time of the experiment are an excellent predictor of long-term improvements in postsecondary outcomes.
主题	Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w17533
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/575207
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Susan Dynarski,Joshua M. Hyman,Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. Experimental Evidence on the Effect of Childhood Investments on Postsecondary Attainment and Degree Completion. 2011.

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