Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States

Núria Rodriguez-Planas

UFAE and IAE Working Papers from Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC)

Abstract: This paper is the first to use a randomized trial in the US to analyze the short- and long-term educational and employment impacts of an afterschool program that offered disadvantaged high-school youth: mentoring, educational services, and financial rewards with the objective to improve high-school graduation and postsecondary schooling enrollment. The short-term hefty beneficial average impacts quickly faded away. Heterogeneity matters. While encouraging results are found for younger youth, and when the program is implemented in relatively small communities of 9th graders; detrimental long- lived outcomes are found for males, and when case managers are partially compensated by incentive payments and students receive more regular reminders of incentives.

Keywords: short-; medium- and long-term effects; after-school programs; intrinsic and extrinsic motivation; and educational and employment outcomes. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C93 I21 I22 I28 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 57
Date: 2010-05-03
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Working Paper: Longer-term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Incentives to Learn: Evidence from a Randomized Trial in the United States (2015)
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