Christine Mulhern
@camulhern
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Associate Policy Researcher at RAND Corporation. Opinions do not represent RAND. Retweets are not endorsements.
California
Joined July 2013
RT @CoderreT: .@RANDCorporation's @camulhern: students of color who are matched with nonwhite counselors were more likely to graduate high….
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Fighting racial biases and diversifying counseling staff is seen as crucial to boosting college-going rates among Black and Latino students.
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My officemate may make a guest appearance to share her thoughts on the impact of COVID on dog adoptions. #PetsofAEFP
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Looking forward to presenting work with @JoshuaSGoodman and @abacherhicks today @AEFPweb. Come learn about inequality in searches for online learning resources during COVID in session 11.04.
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Feeling very thankful for all the people who helped me get here, excited for what is next @RANDcorporation, and delighted to be in such good company @riaction @CaminaNTMorales.
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RT @CoderreT: There's almost always a @RANDCorporation study about it. AKA what I found trying to figure out how & why we need to use Navia….
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This paper shows how the technology Naviance, which provides low-cost personalized college admissions information to more than 40% of high schoolers, influences college choices.
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RT @QJEHarvard: Recently accepted by #QJE: “O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers on College and Major Choice in Four Countries,”….
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RT @nberpubs: Internet searches for online learning resources doubled after Covid-induced school closures swept the US, with households in….
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RT @ProfMartyWest: New in @EducationNext: @camulhern shares her important research on how much high school counselors matter for student su….
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Quality varies, and can matter as much as with teachers
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RT @AnnenbergInst: .@JoshuaSGoodman, Michael Hurwitz, @camulhern, and .@jonisaacsmith study within-family spillovers in college enrollment….
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RT @nberpubs: An older sibling's decision to enroll in a higher-quality college can spill over to a younger sibling, particularly in famili….
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More broadly, these results indicate that counselors are an important education input and that personalized advising may be a useful way to improve social and economic outcomes in a variety of settings.
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Counselors also increase college attendance at the type of college they attended and those educated nearby are best at increasing educational attainment. This may be because most high school counselors have little or no training on college advising.
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Students benefit from assignment to a counselor of the same race and to a counselor with skills aligned to their needs. Counselors who are effective at improving high school behavior tend to be different from those who increase the selectivity of their students' college choices.
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Counselors’ effects appear driven by the information and assistance they provide students, rather than short-term effects on cognitive and non-cognitive skills. This highlights the important role of educators in helping students access education opportunities.
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Counselor effectiveness is most important for low-income and low-achieving students. Thus, increasing access to effective counseling may help close socioeconomic gaps in education.
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Assignment to a counselor who is one standard deviation above average increases high school graduation and college attendance by about 2 percentage points. Counselors also influence the type of college a student attends and persistence in college.
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I use quasi-random counselor assignment policies in MA to show that counselors significantly vary in their effects on high school graduation, college attendance, selectivity and persistence. Counselors’ effects are often larger than teachers’ effects on these outcomes.
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