Increasing Economic Diversity at a Flagship University: Results from a Large-Scale, Randomized Trial

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The Power of Certainty: Experimental Evidence on the Effective Design of Free Tuition Programs

“…We estimate the effect of the HAIL and Go Blue Encouragement treatments on application, admission, and enrollment at the University of Michigan, as described in our pre-analysis plan (Dynarski et al 2019). We We estimate the following by ordinary least squares (OLS):…”

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A pre-analysis plan was filed in August 2019 (Dynarski et al, 2019). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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