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Lavecchia, Adam M.; Oreopoulos, Philip; Brown, Robert S. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
We estimate long-run impacts to the Pathways to Education program, a comprehensive set of coaching, tutoring, group activities and financial incentives offered to disadvantaged students beginning in Grade 9. High school administrative records are matched to income tax records to follow individuals up to the age of 28, even when they leave the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Coaching (Performance), Tutoring, Group Activities
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Hao, Lingxin; Cherlin, Andrew J. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2004
This study estimates the effect of welfare reform on adolescent behaviors using a difference-indifferences approach. After defining the prereform and reform cohorts and considering the life course development of adolescent behavior by following each cohort from age 14 to age 16, we compare the welfare-target and nontarget populations in the two…
Descriptors: Females, Dropouts, Pregnancy, Welfare Services