The Promise of Place-Based Investment in College Access and Success: Investigating the Impact of the Pittsburgh Promise
SSRN, ISSN: 1556-5068
2017
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Article Description
Place-based promise scholarships are a relatively recent innovation in the space of college access and success. Although evidence on the impact of some of the earliest place-based scholarships has begun to emerge, the rapid proliferation of promise programs largely has preceded empirical evidence of their impact. We utilize regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences analyses to investigate the causal effect of the Pittsburgh Promise on students’ immediate postsecondary attainment and early college persistence outcomes. Both analytic approaches yield similar conclusions. As a result of Promise eligibility, Pittsburgh Public School graduates are approximately 5 percentage points more likely to enroll in college, particularly four-year institutions; 10 percentage points more likely to select a Pennsylvania institution; and 4 to 7 percentage points more likely to enroll and persist into a second year of postsecondary education. Impacts vary with changes over time in the program structure and opportunities and are larger for those responsive to the Promise opportunity, as instrumental variable-adjusted results reveal. Although the Pittsburgh Promise represents a sizeable investment, conservative cost-benefit calculations indicate positive returns. Even with positive economic returns, an important question is whether locally funded programs such as the Pittsburgh Promise are economically sustainable in the long run.
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http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85116639378&origin=inward; http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3071727; https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3071727; https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3071727; https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3071727; https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071727
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