Data Access Files for: Do Dual Enrollment Students Realize Better Long-Term Earnings? Variations in Financial Outcomes Among Key Student Groups in Texas

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Navi Dhaliwal; McKenna Griffin; Dillon Lu; Sayeeda Jamilah; David Mahan; Trey Miller; Holly Kosiewicz

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Dhaliwal, Navi , Griffin, McKenna , Lu, Dillon, Jamilah, Sayeeda, Mahan, David, Miller, Trey , and Kosiewicz, Holly. Data Access Files for: Do Dual Enrollment Students Realize Better Long-Term Earnings? Variations in Financial Outcomes Among Key Student Groups in Texas  . Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2026-01-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/E244211V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This study considers whether dual enrollment is associated with students’ earnings outcomes over a longer, ten-year time horizon after high school graduation than previously analyzed in the existing literature. Using longitudinal administrative data that span K-12, higher education, and the workforce, we conduct a propensity score analysis to understand how dual credit participation among five cohorts in the state of Texas—the 2008-2012 high school graduating classes—correlates with annual earnings measured through the tenth year post high school graduation. We find that dual credit participants realize lower earnings than non-participants during the first four years after high school graduation, but achieve higher earnings in years five through ten, netting a cumulative ten-year earnings increase of 6%. We find similar results across many student subpopulations, though smaller magnitudes of association for some, suggesting that dual enrollment relates favorably to distal measures of students’ financial wellbeing.



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