Health and Criminal Justice Outcomes of Furthering Education
Future to Discover is a randomized controlled trial which began tracking a sample of 5,429 Grade 9 students originally drawn from 51 high schools in Manitoba and New Brunswick in 2004-05. It tested the effectiveness of two early high school interventions designed to help students overcome barriers to access postsecondary education (PSE): enhanced career education and a guarantee of a grant to students from lower-income families. Previous reports have demonstrated the impacts of offering the interventions separately and together on youths’ later PSE and labour market experiences.
This new study uses new linkages to the Future to Discover dataset to estimate the impacts of being allocated to the treatment groups (that obtained increased education) on health and justice outcomes. It thus contributes valuable evidence to the analysis of education as a social determinant of health and justice outcomes.
Project Details
Capability: Experimentation - Data Sciences - Health Economics
Policy Area: Career Development and LMI, Health - Population Health, Post-Secondary Education - Graduate Labour Market - Access and Persistence - Student Financial Aid, P-12 Education - Specialized Services and Programs
Population: Students
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