Incentivizing STEM participation: Evidence from the SMART Grant Program
Incentivizing STEM participation: Evidence from the SMART Grant Program
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激励 STEM 参与：来自 SMART 资助计划的证据
DOI：
10.1002/soej.12597
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发表时间：
2022
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Scott, Jacob P.
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作者：
Blume‐Kohout, Margaret E.;Scott, Jacob P.
美国国家科学和数学获取留住人才（SMART）补助金计划为STEM领域的高成就，低收入本科生提供高达8000美元的资金。我们使用全国代表性调查数据和差异中的差异准实验方法评估了这种财政激励对大学毕业生主要领域和随后STEM劳动力保留的影响。SMART补助金计划显著提高了第一代大学毕业生主修STEM的概率，约为7个百分点。然而，这一增长几乎完全被受影响的STEM毕业生显著降低的STEM劳动力保留所抵消。这些项目的影响似乎也集中在父母有大学经历的学生身上，而不是那些在家庭中第一次上大学的学生。
The U.S. National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent (SMART) Grant program provided up to $8000 to high‐achieving, low‐income undergraduates majoring in STEM fields. We evaluate the effects of this financial incentive on college graduates' major fields and subsequent STEM workforce retention using nationally‐representative survey data and a difference‐in‐differences quasi‐experimental approach. The SMART Grant program significantly increased the probability that first‐generation college graduates majored in STEM, by about 7 percentage points. However, this increase is almost entirely offset by affected STEM graduates' significantly lower STEM workforce retention. These program effects also appear to be concentrated among students whose parents had some college experience rather than those who were first in their families to attend college.