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ERIC Number: EJ1238273
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 25
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0276-8739
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What Does Free Community College Buy? Early Impacts from the Oregon Promise
Gurantz, Oded
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, v39 n1 p11-35 Win 2020
This paper examines the Oregon Promise, a state-level program that exclusively subsidizes in-state community college attendance. I estimate impacts using a difference-in-difference design that links students in states with essentially universal 10th-grade PSAT coverage to national-level postsecondary enrollment data. I find that the implementation of the Oregon Promise increased enrollment at two-year colleges by roughly four to five percentage points for the first two eligible cohorts. In the first year of the program, the increase in community college enrollment comes primarily from students shifting out of four-year colleges, whereas in the second year the program predominately increases overall postsecondary enrollment.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges; Grade 10; High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oregon
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test
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