Nudges, College Enrollment, and College Persistence: Evidence From a Statewide Experiment in Michigan
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Keywords
college access; college persistence; social experiments; behavioral nudges;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
- J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2018-06-25 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2018-06-25 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-URE-2018-06-25 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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