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AB  - Project Lead the Way (PLTW) is an applied STEM Career Technical Education program that has been adopted widely across the country. Using data from Missouri, we investigate the impact of PLTW course expansion on program participation and early post-secondary outcomes. Our identification strategies rely on within-school between-cohort variation in PLTW course availability. This serves as an instrument to identify program participation impacts. We find that greater PLTW course availability is related to higher program participation, college enrollment, and STEM major declaration with greater benefits for students with strong prior STEM preparation. Males are more responsive to Engineering course expansion and females to Biomedical Science expansion. Participation impacts on five-year STEM major declaration are larger for females than males.
AU  - Nomi, Takako 
AU  - DeChane, Darrin 
AU  - Podgursky, Michael 
PY  - 2025
ST  - Increasing Applied STEM Curricular Opportunities in High School and Impacts on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes: The Effect of Project Lead the Way
TI  - Increasing Applied STEM Curricular Opportunities in High School and Impacts on Early Post-Secondary Outcomes: The Effect of Project Lead the Way
UR  - http://www.edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1300
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