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A second look at enrollment changes after the Kalamazoo Promise
While previous research has documented how the Kalamazoo Promise, the most prominent and generous place-based college scholarship program, increased enrollment in Kalamazoo Public Schools, this paper qualifies and quantifies the characteristics of students who were induced to enter - or stay - in the district. In particular, it analyzes the origins and destinations, socioeconomic composition, and school-level sorting behavior associated with student flows around the time of the Promise announcement. These dimensions are more subtle than changes in the volume of students or measures of their individual success, but they are equally important to understand for communities exploring the feasibility of place-based scholarships as a local economic development tool. The findings suggest considerable economic benefits not just for the school district but for the broader metropolitan area.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Upjohn Institute Working Paper ; No. 13-200
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Analysis of Education
Education and Economic Development
Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
- Subject
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Kalamazoo Promise
place-based scholarship
local economic development
enrollment
migration
selection
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Hershbein, Brad J.
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
- (where)
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Kalamazoo, MI
- (when)
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2013
- DOI
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doi:10.17848/wp13-200
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Hershbein, Brad J.
- W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Time of origin
- 2013
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