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Year:: 2019
Contributor:: Joshua Hyman (author)
Genre:: grey literature
Subject:: Post-secondary education; Access and admissions; Inequality; Program and policy effects

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Abstract:: I conduct a statewide experiment in Michigan with nearly 50,000 high-achieving high school seniors. Treated students are mailed a letter encouraging them to consider college and providing them with the web address of a college information website. I find that very high-achieving, low-income students, and very high-achieving, minority students are the most likely to navigate to the website. Small changes to letter content affect take-up. For example, highlighting college affordability induces 18 percent more students to the website than highlighting college choice, and 37 percent more than highlighting how to apply to college. I find a statistically precise zero impact on college enrollment among all students mailed the letter. However, low-income students experience a small increase in the probability that they enroll in college, driven by increases at four-year institutions. An examination of persistence through college, while imprecise, suggests that the students induced into college by the intervention persist at a lower rate than the inframarginal student.

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Joshua Hyman, "Can Light-Touch College-Going Interventions Make a Difference? Evidence From a Statewide Experiment in Michigan" (2019). EdWorkingPapers.com Archive. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:956665/

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Can Light-Touch College-Going Interventions Make a Difference? Evidence From a Statewide Experiment in Michigan