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Dual-Credit Courses and the Road to College: Experimental Evidence from Tennessee

March 1, 2020

Susan Dynarski, Steven Hemelt, Nathaniel Schwartz

Dual-credit courses expose high school students to college-level content and provide the opportunity to earn college credits, in part to smooth the transition to college. With the Tennessee Department of Education, we conduct the first randomized...

EPI Working papers

A New Measure of College Quality to Study the Effects of College Sector and Peers on Degree Attainment

October 1, 2015

Kevin Stange, Jonathan Smith

Students starting at a two-year college are much less likely to graduate with a college degree than similar students who start at a four-year college but the sources of this attainment gap are largely unexplained. In this paper we simultaneously...

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Postsecondary preparation & success

Go Blue Community College Project

September 2021

Susan Dynarski, Kevin Stange, Silvia Robles, Katherine Michelmore

The barriers facing community college students are numerous. An elite higher education institution, like the University of Michigan, can play a transformative role in the economic mobility of low-income students through programs like HAIL Scholars, but relatively few low-income students ever matriculate at such institutions. Community colleges are good places to find high-achieving, low-income students who would benefit from further enrollment at institutions like U-M. In this project, researchers will develop and implement a randomized controlled trial of an intervention that aims to...