Communicating with college students' parents about re-enrolling in college

Last registered on August 25, 2014

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Pre-Trial

Trial Information

General Information

Title

Communicating with colleges about re-enrolling in college

RCT ID

AEARCTR-0000493

Initial registration date

August 25, 2014

Initial registration date is when the trial was registered.

It corresponds to when the registration was submitted to the Registry to be reviewed for publication.

First published

August 25, 2014, 11:47 AM EDT

First published corresponds to when the trial was first made public on the Registry after being reviewed.

Locations

Country

United States of America

Region

Primary Investigator

Name

Todd Rogers

Affiliation

Harvard Kennedy School

Contact Primary Investigator

Other Primary Investigator(s)

Additional Trial Information

Status

Completed

Start date

2014-04-01

End date

2014-08-24

Keywords

Education

Additional Keywords

JEL code(s)

Secondary IDs

Abstract

We study the impact of mailing parents of second-term students reminders about critical re-enrollment deadlines on re-enrollment for third term.

External Link(s)

Registration Citation

Citation

Rogers, Todd. 2014. "Communicating with colleges about re-enrolling in college." AEA RCT Registry. August 25. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.493-1.0

Former Citation

Rogers, Todd. 2014. "Communicating with colleges about re-enrolling in college." AEA RCT Registry. August 25. https://www.socialscienceregistry.org/trials/493/history/2634

Sponsors & Partners

Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)

We sent parents two rounds of mailing, spaced by one month.

Intervention Start Date

2014-05-01

Intervention End Date

2014-08-08

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)

Re-enrollment for any course credits in third term

Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)

Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

This is a randomized experiment with 3 conditions: untreated control, treatment 1, treatment 2

Experimental Design Details

Randomization Method

randomization done in office by computer

Randomization Unit

Individual-level

Was the treatment clustered?

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters

~3000 student-parent dyads

Sample size: planned number of observations

~3000 student-parent dyads

Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms

~1000 per condition

Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)

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IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name

San Francisco State University

IRB Approval Date

2014-02-19

IRB Approval Number

X13-70a

Analysis Plan

Post-Trial

Post Trial Information

Study Withdrawal