Lead Them to Water and Pay Them to Drink: An Experiment with Services and Incentives for College Achievement

Joshua Angrist, Daniel Lang, Philip Oreopoulos

NBER Working Paper No. 12790
Issued in December 2006

---- Acknowledgements -----

This project was sponsored by the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Special thanks go to Yan Tam-Seguin and Daniela Rukavina, as well as to other staff and administrators who assisted with the project, and to Cynthia Kinnan for exceptional research assistance. We benefited from helpful comments from seminar participants at the National Bureau of Economic Research Summer Institute, Stanford University, University of California, Santa Cruz, the University of Chicago, the University of Toronto, Williams College, Harvard University, the University of Houston, Rice University, Texas A&M, Statistics Canada, the London School of Economics, MIT, and the Stanford Institute Theoretical Conference (SITE). The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research or the Canada Millenium Scholarship Foundation.

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