Lead them to water and pay them to drink: an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement
High rates of attrition, delayed completion, and poor achievement are growing concerns at colleges and universities in North America. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve these outcomes among first-year undergraduates at a large Canadian un...
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Cambridge, Mass.
National Bureau of Economic Research
2006
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| Schriftenreihe: | Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research
12790 |
| Links: | http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12790.pdf |
| Zusammenfassung: | High rates of attrition, delayed completion, and poor achievement are growing concerns at colleges and universities in North America. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve these outcomes among first-year undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One treatment group was offered peer advising and organized study group services. Another was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for students offered both services and scholarships than for those offered services alone. Females also used services more than males. No program had an effect on grades for males. However, first-term grades were significantly higher for females in the two scholarship treatment groups. These effects faded somewhat by year's end, but remain significant for females who planned to take enough courses to qualify for a scholarship. There also appears to have been an effect on retention for females offered both scholarships and services. This effect is large enough to generate an overall increase in retention. On balance, the results suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone. |
| Beschreibung: | Literaturverz. S. 35 - 37 |
| Umfang: | 37, [21] S. graph. Darst. 22 cm |
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| spelling | Angrist, Joshua D. 1960- Verfasser (DE-588)124748430 aut Lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement Joshua Angrist ; Daniel Lang ; Philip Oreopoulos Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2006 37, [21] S. graph. Darst. 22 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Working paper series / National Bureau of Economic Research 12790 Literaturverz. S. 35 - 37 High rates of attrition, delayed completion, and poor achievement are growing concerns at colleges and universities in North America. This paper reports on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve these outcomes among first-year undergraduates at a large Canadian university. One treatment group was offered peer advising and organized study group services. Another was offered substantial merit-scholarships for solid, but not necessarily top, first year grades. A third treatment group combined both interventions. Service take-up rates were much higher for students offered both services and scholarships than for those offered services alone. Females also used services more than males. No program had an effect on grades for males. However, first-term grades were significantly higher for females in the two scholarship treatment groups. These effects faded somewhat by year's end, but remain significant for females who planned to take enough courses to qualify for a scholarship. There also appears to have been an effect on retention for females offered both scholarships and services. This effect is large enough to generate an overall increase in retention. On balance, the results suggest that a combination of services and incentives is more promising than either alone. Lang, Daniel 1944- Verfasser (DE-588)132870347 aut Oreopoulos, Philip Verfasser (DE-588)128903147 aut Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> NBER working paper series 12790 (DE-604)BV002801238 12790 http://papers.nber.org/papers/w12790.pdf kostenfrei Volltext |
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| title | Lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement |
| title_auth | Lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement |
| title_exact_search | Lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement |
| title_full | Lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement Joshua Angrist ; Daniel Lang ; Philip Oreopoulos |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement Joshua Angrist ; Daniel Lang ; Philip Oreopoulos |
| title_short | Lead them to water and pay them to drink |
| title_sort | lead them to water and pay them to drink an experiment with services and incentives for college achievement |
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