Paying for Performance: The Education Impacts of a Community College Scholarship Program for Low-Income Adults

Lisa Barrow, Lashawn Richburg-Hayes, Cecilia Elena Rouse and Thomas Brock

Journal of Labor Economics, 2014, vol. 32, issue 3, 563 - 599

Abstract: We evaluate the effect of performance-based incentive programs on educational outcomes for community college students from a random assignment experiment at three campuses. Incentive payments over 2 semesters were tied to meeting two conditions--enrolling at least half-time and maintaining a C or better grade point average. Eligibility increased the likelihood of enrolling in the second semester after random assignment and total number of credits earned. Over 2 years, program group students completed nearly 40% more credits. We find little evidence that program eligibility changed types of courses taken but some evidence of increased academic performance and effort.

Date: 2014
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Working Paper: Paying for Performance: The Education Impacts of a Community College Scholarship Program for Low-income Adults (2012)
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