Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support: Evidence from Pathways to Education
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Abstract
Offering comprehensive education support services to disadvantaged students shows promise for improving academic attainment. We explore longer-term impacts of the Pathways to Education program, a set of coaching, tutoring, group activities, and financial incentives initially offered in 2001 to grade-nine students living in the largest public housing community in Toronto. Using a difference-in-difference methodology and matching school records to income tax data through age 28 for a sample of students living in public housing under similar circumstances, we find that Pathways eligibility increased adult annual earnings by 19 percent, employment by 14 percent, and reduced welfare receipt by more than 30 percent.Citation
Lavecchia, Adam M., Philip Oreopoulos, and Robert S. Brown. 2020. "Long-Run Effects from Comprehensive Student Support: Evidence from Pathways to Education." American Economic Review: Insights, 2 (2): 209-24. DOI: 10.1257/aeri.20190114Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I22 Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions
- I24 Education and Inequality
- I26 Returns to Education
- I28 Education: Government Policy
- L31 Nonprofit Institutions; NGOs; Social Entrepreneurship