PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Brownback, Andy
AU  - Sadoff, Sally
TI  - College Summer School
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.0122-12151R1
DP  - 2026 Jul 01
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 1231--1259
VI  - 61
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/4/1231.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/61/4/1231.full
AB  - We experimentally examine whether a policy targeting college summer school enrollment can accelerate degree progress and completion. We randomly assign summer scholarships to community college students and find a large impact on degree acceleration, increasing graduation within one year of the intervention by 32 percent and transfers to four-year colleges by 58 percent. We elicit preferences for the scholarships and find substantial treatment effects on enrollment, graduation, and transfer among students with a preference against summer school. These results suggest that many more students could benefit from summer school than the minority who currently enroll.