V-SOURCE Evaluation

The Virtual Student Outreach for College (V-SOURCE) Program was implemented by Edboost Education Corporation and evaluated by UCLA Luskin Professors Meredith Phillips and Sarah Reber.

We gratefully acknowledge funding from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES Grant R305A110809) and the support of the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA, which is supported by infrastructure grant R24HD041022 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. We also acknowledge the support of the California Policy Lab in facilitating access to and hosting administrative data for this project.

Paper

“Does Virtual Advising Increase College Enrollment? Evidence from a Random Assignment College Access Field Experiment,” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, August 2022.
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Implementation and Impact Report

Download “Report on the Implementation and Impacts of the V-SOURCE College Access Program”