Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States.

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Autor/Urheber	Rodríguez-Planas, Núria
Titel	Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States.
Quelle	(2010) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Short medium and long-term effects; After-school programs
Abstract	JEL classification: C93, I21, I22, I28, J24 ; This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an afterschool program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and postsecondary schooling enrollment. The short-term hefty beneficial average impacts quickly faded away. Heterogeneity matters. While encouraging results are found for younger youth, and when the program is implemented in relatively small communities of 9th graders; detrimental long- lived outcomes are found for males, and when case managers are partially compensated by incentive payments and students receive more regular reminders of incentives. ; The Quantum Opportunity Program demonstration study was conducted under Contract No. K-5547-5-00-80-30 from the U.S. Department of Labor or the Ford Foundation ; Peer reviewed
Anmerkungen	UFAE and IAE Working Papers; 821.10
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