The Impact of Early Colleges on Postsecondary Performance and Completion
This article updates findings from a 17-year longitudinal experimental study on early colleges, examining the impact on postsecondary performance and completion.
Christine Mulhern is the employment portfolio manager at RAND, an economist, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. She focuses on the economics of education and labor economics. Her research studies how students and workers navigate education and career pathways, including whether and where to enroll in postsecondary education and how social networks, school resources, and technology influence these choices. She has studied high school counselors, siblings' influence on college choices, dual enrollment programs, educational technologies, teachers, and labor market transitions. She is also working on research related to children's health and the long-term impacts of education on health. Her research has been published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Journal of Labor Economics, and Journal of Public Economics, featured in media outlets including, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, and funded by NIH, IES, and several foundations. Mulhern received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.
Education
Ph.D. in public policy, Harvard University; B.A. in mathematical methods in the social sciences, Northwestern University
Selected Work
- Christine Mulhern, "Changing College Choices with Personalized Admissions Information at Scale: Evidence on Naviance," Journal of Labor Economics, 39(1), 2021
- Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Joshua Goodman, and Christine Mulhern, "Inequality in HouseholdvAdaptation to Schooling Shocks: Covid-Induced Online Learning Engagement in Real Time," Journal of Public Economics, 193, 2021
- Adam Altmejd, Andres Barrios-Fernandez, Marin Drlje, Joshua Goodman, Michael Hurwitz, Dejan Kovac, Christine Mulhern, Christopher Neilson and Jonathan Smith, "O Brother, Where Start Thou? Sibling Spillovers in College and Major Choice in Four Countries," Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2021 (forthcoming)
- Christine Mulhern, Shelby McNeill , Fatih Unlu, Brian Phillips, Julie A. Edmunds , Eric Grebing, "Spillover effects of specialized high schools," Journal of Public Economics, 238, 2024
- Julie Edmunds, Fatih Unlu, Brian Phillips, Christine Mulhern, Bryan C. Hutchins, "CTE-focused Dual Enrollment: Participation and Outcomes," Education Finance and Policy, 2023 (forthcoming)
Authored by Christine Mulhern
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