LATE for the Meeting: Gender, Peer Advising, and College Success

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Nudging study habits: A field experiment on peer tutoring in higher education

“…This paper also relates to the literature on programs to promote college retention and progression, such as remedial courses (Moss and Yeaton 2006, Calcagno and Long 2008, Bettinger and Long 2009, Martorell and McFarlin Jr 2011, Scott-Clayton and Rodriguez 2014, De Paola and Scoppa 2015 and student advising (Angrist et al 2009, Visher et al 2011, Bettinger and Baker 2013, Ellis and Gershenson 2016. Peer tutoring can serve as a low-cost complement or alternative to such programs.…”