The Impact of Mentoring on Tertiary Education Expectations

Last registered on December 15, 2023
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Trial Information

General Information

Title
The Impact of Mentoring on Tertiary Education Expectations
RCT ID
AEARCTR-0012319
Initial registration date
October 23, 2023

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First published
November 01, 2023, 2:39 PM EDT

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

Last updated
December 15, 2023, 2:13 PM EST

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Primary Investigator

Name
Caterina Calsamiglia
Affiliation
Institute of Political Economy and Governance
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Other Primary Investigator(s)

PI Name
Annalisa Loviglio
PI Affiliation
University of Bologna
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PI Name
Javier Garcia-Brazales
PI Affiliation
University of Exeter Business School
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Additional Trial Information

Status
On going
Start date
2023-09-15
End date
2024-06-01
Keywords
Education
Additional Keywords
JEL code(s)
I24
Secondary IDs
Prior work
This trial does not extend or rely on any prior RCTs.
Abstract
Access to tertiary education among students enrolled in schools located in socioeconomically-disadvantaged areas is still limited. This fact tends to perpetuate inequalities. In this project, we study the impact of providing one-to-one mentoring sessions to students starting their last year of high school by randomly allocating a subset of students from over 50 schools in Catalonia to voluntary mentors who are college students or graduates. We focus on the effects of our intervention on the expectations of these students about the likelihood of attending university or vocational education and of direct entry into the labor force and about the pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns of these three options.
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Registration Citation

Citation
Calsamiglia, Caterina, Javier Garcia-Brazales and Annalisa Loviglio. 2023. "The Impact of Mentoring on Tertiary Education Expectations." AEA RCT Registry. December 15. https://doi.org/10.1257/rct.12319-1.1
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Experimental Details

Interventions

Intervention(s)
Intervention Start Date
2023-10-20
Intervention End Date
2023-12-21

Primary Outcomes

Primary Outcomes (end points)
Expectations about the likelihood of attending tertiary education as well as about pecuniary and non-pecuniary benefits for different academic choices (attendance of university or vocational school and immediate entering in the labor force).
Primary Outcomes (explanation)

Secondary Outcomes

Secondary Outcomes (end points)
Academic performance in the short run. We have also obtained legal and ethical consent to follow the students in the mid-term. Hence, budget permitting, we will also explore academic choices and performance during this longer time horizon.
Secondary Outcomes (explanation)

Experimental Design

Experimental Design
We randomized 25% of the participating students in each school into treatment. Treated students are then assigned to a mentor within the pool of available ones using a matching algorithm that prioritises similarities between the mentor and the mentee.
Experimental Design Details
Not available
Randomization Method
Randomization seed determined by a "true" random number generator from https://www.random.org.
Randomization Unit
Individual (student) level.
Was the treatment clustered?
No

Experiment Characteristics

Sample size: planned number of clusters
We randomize at the student level. We start with 809 students.
Sample size: planned number of observations
We expect to have 809 students.
Sample size (or number of clusters) by treatment arms
Treatment is randomized within schools. All 57 schools have treated and control students. We expect to have 201 treated students and 607 control students.
Minimum detectable effect size for main outcomes (accounting for sample design and clustering)
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IRB

Institutional Review Boards (IRBs)

IRB Name
Ministerio de Inclusión, Seguridad Social y Migraciones
IRB Approval Date
2023-09-08
IRB Approval Number
N/A
Analysis Plan

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