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Title: Smoothing the Transition to College?: The Effect of Tech-Prep Programs on Educational Attainment
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Cellini, Stephanie Riegg |
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Smoothing the Transition to College?: The Effect of Tech-Prep Programs on Educational Attainment Economics of Education Review 25,4 (August 2006): 394-411. Also: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272775706000318 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Elsevier Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Educational Attainment; High School Curriculum; High School Students; Modeling, Fixed Effects; Schooling, Post-secondary; Vocational Education; Vocational Training By promoting articulation agreements between high schools and community colleges, Tech-Prep programs aim to smooth the transition to college for the middle majority of US high school students. This paper employs a family fixed effects approach to assess the effectiveness of Tech-Prep programs in increasing educational attainment. Using data from six rounds of the 1997 NLSY and controlling for both selection and within-family spillovers, I find that Tech-Prep programs help participants complete high school and encourage enrollment in two-year colleges. On the other hand, these gains come at the expense of four-year college enrollment, suggesting that Tech-Prep programs may divert students from four-year to two-year colleges in the years immediately following high school. While Tech-Prep programs appear to increase overall educational attainment, they may be falling short of their goal of promoting college enrollment among the middle majority. |
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Cellini, Stephanie Riegg. "Smoothing the Transition to College?: The Effect of Tech-Prep Programs on Educational Attainment ." Economics of Education Review 25,4 (August 2006): 394-411.
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