(disclaimer: I'm not an economist! just a policy person who reads a lot of research 😅)

I feel like the overall evidence on co-requisite education is pretty mixed, and there's a lot of variation in how these programs are designed/implemented. So hard to say if these results would replicate! Jill Barshay did a good write up on this a few years ago hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

cuny asap, of course! www.mdrc.org/work/publica...

but on your second question, I think this paper on co-requisite math/stats courses is interesting. they suggest that the earnings impact that they find is driven by reduced time to degree. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

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