8. Student Perceptions of College Opportunities: The Boston COACH Program

By Christopher Avery, Thomas J. Kane, Bruce I. Sacerdote. 2004

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Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, unknown): “Given that postsecondary completion rates, per-student instructional resources and career advising services vary widely across various institutions and programs, enrolling in schools that do 82 Avery and Kane, 2004.”
STUDYING COLLEGE ACCESS AND CHOICE: A PROPOSED CONCEPTUAL MODEL (2006, background): “In their examination of students’ perceptions of college opportunities, Avery and Kane (2004) concluded that low college enrollment rates for low-income high school students are not attributable to lack of information about the benefits of attending.”
The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics (2006, background): “Rather, they miss a key deadline, or incorrectly ﬁ ll out a form, or fail to take a required class, and thereby fall off the path to college (Avery and Kane, 2004).”
Student Portfolios and the College Admissions Problem (2014, background): “This framework is the only equilibrium model that speaks to the recent empirical explorations of student application behaviour (Avery and Kane, 2004; Carrell and Sacerdote, 2012; Hoxby and Avery, 2012; Pallais, 2009).”
Student Loans: Do College Students Borrow Too Much--Or Not Enough? (2012, background): “…career success has been suffi ciently well-publicized that even disadvantaged students from urban public schools tend to produce relatively accurate estimates of average wages at age 25 for those with and without a college degree (Avery and Kane 2004; Rouse 2004; see also Dominitz and Manski 1996).”
Creating College Opportunity: School Counselors and Their Influence on Postsecondary Enrollment (2013, background): “…low-SES students are more likely to overestimate college costs, underestimate the availability of financial aid, and exhibit poor knowledge about the academic prerequisites to college attendance (Avery and Kane 2004; Deil-Amen and Tevis 2010; Grodsky and Jones 2004; Horn, Chen and Chapman 2003).”
Real and imagined barriers to college entry: Perceptions of cost (2004, background): “8 factor of two or more, and that estimates for tuition at community colleges are more upwardly biased than estimates for tuition at four-year colleges (Avery and Kane, 2004; Ikenberry and Hartle 1998; Post 1990).”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “There are many other decisions and steps that “add up” to postsecondary access, and throughout the process from college consideration to enrollment, lowincome students fall behind their better-off peers in completing these steps (Avery & Kane, 2004).”
One Step at a Time (2018, unknown): “Avery and Kane (2004) and Grodsky and Jones (2007), for example, find little evidence that students or parents lacking information about the costs and benefits of college explains the socioeconomic stratification of college attendance.”
Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education Experimental Evidence from Madagascar (2013, background): “Several papers have surveyed college students in the US for their perceptions of incomes associated with different educational levels: Betts (1996), Dominitz and Manski (1996), Avery and Kane (2004).”