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Sorensen, Lucy C.; Hwang, Moontae – AERA Open, 2021
Youth living in remote rural communities face significant geographic barriers to college access. Even those living near to a postsecondary institution may not have the means for, or may not see the value of, pursuing a college degree within their local economy. This study uses 18 years of national county-level data to ask how local economic shocks…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Educational Attainment, Postsecondary Education, Unemployment
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Swanson, Elise; Kopotic, Katherine; Zamarro, Gema; Mills, Jonathan N.; Greene, Jay P.; W. Ritter, Gary – AERA Open, 2021
We study whether visits to a college campus during eighth grade affect students' interest in and preparation for college. Two cohorts of eighth graders were randomized within schools to a control condition, in which they received a college informational packet, or a treatment condition, in which they received the same information and visited a…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 8, Field Trips, Colleges