, and credit records, to identify the effects of increased student borrowing on credit-constrained students' educational …

College completion and college success often lag behind college attendance. One theory as to why students do not …. Over the course of two separate school years, InsideTrack, a student coaching service, provided coaching to students from … public, private, and proprietary universities. Most of the participating students were non-traditional college students …

mapped into the observed 1-5 integer scores, for over 4.5 million students. Earning higher AP integer scores positively … that receiving a score of 3 over a 2 on junior year AP exams causes students to take between 0.06 and 0.14 more AP exams …

suggests that increasing grant aid for low-income college students would enhance welfare in many U.S. settings …We estimate effects of the largest U.S. federal grant for college students using administrative data from Texas four … receipt and earnings beginning four years after entry. Estimated increases in income tax payments fully recoup government …

randomized controlled trials, the impact of a national and state-level campaign to encourage students to apply for financial aid … for college. The campaigns collectively reached over 800,000 students, with multiple treatment arms to investigate …

. This paper attempts to fill this void using a unique dataset of students at public, four-year colleges in Ohio. The paper …. Because students with alternative instructors may differ systematically from other students, the paper uses two empirical … differ by discipline. Adjuncts and graduate assistants negatively affect students in the humanities while positively …

We examine the long-term impacts of California's state-based financial aid by tracking students' educational and labor … eligibility rules using GPA and family income cutoffs that are ex ante unknown to applicants. Aid eligibility increases …

We conduct a survey-based experiment with 2,776 students at a non-profit university to analyze income insurance demand … in education financing. We offered students a hypothetical choice: either a federal loan with income-driven repayment or … an income-share agreement (ISA), with randomized framing of downside protections. Emphasizing income insurance increased …

the Graduate PLUS loan program. Access to additional federal loans increased graduate students' borrowing and shifted the … in constrained students' persistence or degree receipt. We document that among programs in which a larger share of … graduate students had exhausted their annual federal loan eligibility before the policy change--and thus were more exposed to …