immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students … during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college campuses, and the city's shutdown. Low-income students are identified by … whether they ever received the federal Pell Grant. We find that low-income college students were 8% more likely than general …

analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …