The long-run effects of college remedial education

Marco Alberto De Benedetto, Maria De Paola (), Vincenzo Scoppa () and Janna Smirnova

Economics Letters, 2022, vol. 216, issue C

Abstract: We investigate the long-run impact of college remedial education on students’ academic performance and employment status. By implementing a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity Design we show that attending remedial courses positively affects the probability to get a university degree, whereas no significant effect is found on labour market outcomes.

Keywords: Remediation; Education; Employment; RDD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C26 I23 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2022.110613

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