Despite generous financial aid, military veterans have high rates of undermatch and generally poor postsecondary outcomes. We conducted a large-scale, multi-arm field experiment with the U.S. Army to investigate whether personalized information about postsecondary options and access to advising affects service members’ postsecondary choices and outcomes. We find no impact of the intervention on whether or where veterans enroll in college or on their college persistence. These results suggest that light touch strategies that have been effective at addressing similar challenges among traditional students, and which we modified for the military context, are not sufficient to improve veterans’ postsecondary outcomes.

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信息和建议能否影响军事人员的高等教育参与和成就？来自美国陆军大规模实验的证据

尽管有慷慨的财政援助，退伍军人的不匹配率很高，而且高等教育后的成绩普遍较差。我们与美国陆军进行了一项大规模、多臂实地实验，以调查有关高等教育选择和获得建议的个性化信息是否会影响服役人员的高等教育选择和结果。我们发现干预措施对退伍军人是否上大学、在哪里上大学以及他们的大学坚持没有影响。这些结果表明，在解决传统学生中的类似挑战方面有效的轻度接触策略，以及我们针对军事背景进行修改的策略，不足以改善退伍军人的高等教育结果。