Much more in the paper, including results for early career income and job quality, MVPF estimates, and robustness checks. Open to feedback.

But AA/AS gains taper after age 22, suggesting the Promise got students to enroll in college right out of high school rather than in their mid-20s. There may be BA/BS gains, too, but they are not very precise.

Regression analysis supports these patterns. We estimate that Promise eligibility at age 17 leads to a 3.8-point higher likelihood of Associate’s degree attainment at age 22.

I shared descriptive statistics with Hechinger Report for a story last fall, showing that Associate attainment ticked up for Tennessee 20-22 year-olds in 2017, two years after Tennessee Promise started. This closed the gap with the rest of the U.S.

After a few more annual ACS releases (and many seminars, conferences, and workshops—thanks, everyone), we can now estimate effects of free CC on degree attainment 8 years after statewide Tennessee Promise, and 14 years after the related program Knox Achieves launched.

Each of those involved estimated effects of Promise eligibility on college-going for 18-19 year-olds, using the American Community Survey. As time passed, we focused on that part as a standalone analysis and added degree and early-career outcomes.

This goes back to 2018 & three efforts: a series of fact sheets for THEC on Tennessee Promise students, a project with Jonathon on the upstream effects of Promise on achievement in high school, and me sandboxing methods for treatment effect inference with one treated group.

New to the web: WP with @jonattridge & Jill Welch on free community college in Tennessee. We estimate positive effects on AA/AS attainment and job quality in the early 20s, no significant change in BA/BS attainment by the mid-20s. First link here: https://t.co/qmON7FxLUC

I'm excited to be an author for the new AEFP Live Handbook of Education Policy Research, an online, open-access resource! Here's a 🧵on the 6 Key Findings from my chapter w/ @kevin_stange: Higher Education Expenditures & Costs https://t.co/WX3QUEhLn4

DEADLINE EXTENDED: New submissions welcomed by September 30

Also check out @RevBlkPolEcon for another special issue honoring Rodney Andrews: Postsecondary Education and Racial/Socioeconomic Diversity. https://t.co/c9g4H5yS4u Submission window through September 20.

Second is "Economics of Education Pathways: A Special Issue in Memory and Honor of Dr. Rodney J. Andrews" (@Rodprime). Submit your paper before August 31.

First is "Building Resilient Education Systems in Asia and the Pacific." Guest edited by @dsuryadarma and colleagues at ADBI, Brookings. Submit your paper before August 10.

Economics of Education Review is reviewing submissions for two special issues:

LAST DAY to submit your paper to a special conference in Honor of Dr. Rodney J. Andrews (@Rodprime) Details and more here,

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🌟 3rd and 4th-year female/nonbinary econ grad students: 1 month left to submit your application to the @AEACSWEP mentoring workshop near Southerns! 🌟 I’ve had so much fun as a mentor the last 2 years and I’ve heard great things about the mentee side from numerous grad students

Reminder to 3rd & 4th year Econ PhD students to check this workshop out and apply! We need mentors and panelists, too. Academia, government, nonprofit, industry. DM if you're interested.