Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan
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- Brian Jacob & Susan Dynarski & Kenneth Frank & Barbara Schneider, 2016. "Are Expectations Alone Enough? Estimating the Effect of a Mandatory College-Prep Curriculum in Michigan," NBER Working Papers 22013, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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college-preparatory curriculum; comparative interrupted time series; synthetic control;All these keywords.
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- I0 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - General
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty
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