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Direct linkLavecchia, 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
Peer reviewedZiegler, Mary; Ebert, Olga; Cope, Gail – Adult Basic Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Adult Literacy Educational Planning, 2004
Welfare reform legislation in Tennessee provided adult basic education classes for welfare recipients whose literacy skills were below ninth grade. Although more than half of those eligible enrolled in adult basic education, many dropped out. The Completion Bonus, a cash incentive program, was instituted to encourage the completion of education…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Welfare Services, Welfare Recipients, Literacy
