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Using data from the 2012 Programme for International Students Assessment (PISA) for Italy, this paper investigates … whether financial literacy skills play a role in shaping the value that high school students place on schooling. We … hypothesize that higher financial literacy may foster students' awareness of the financial and non-financial benefits of gaining …
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-income students in Colombia. We use national level data along with a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the … program. The results confirm that the program was effective in terms of increasing the potential number of low-income students … at the margin who would have enrolled in college, decreasing the number of students who dropped out, and increasing their …
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of receiving financial aid for a cohort of students who enrolled at Politecnico … these students for four years, we were able to evaluate the impact of the financial aid on several dimensions of academic … demonstrate that the effect is higher for immigrants, Italians who moved from another region for studying, and students attending …
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Encouraging contact among students from different economic, social and racial or ethnic backgrounds could help provide … the support students deem necessary to succeed at college. Evaluation of a 2011 Community College Survey of Student … Engagement (CCSSE) dataset reveals an intriguing relationship between student diversity and students' feelings of support they …
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students have attracted increasing attention. In this paper, we investigate potential explanations for the recent expansion in … enrollments of undergraduate international students, with a particular focus on an analysis of the supply-side of educational … enrollment of different types of students, namely the level of states' financial support of 4-year public institutions …
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We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid … years (2004–2006), in which students received additional institutional grant aid and few non-financial supports, improved … postsecondary progress, performance, or completion. In contrast, program-eligible students in more recent cohorts (2007–2010), when …
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prospective students do not know about tax benefits for credits or because the design of tax credits is not conducive to affecting … using a sample of over 1 million students or prospective students in Texas. We sent emails and letters to students that …, already enrolled students, and students who had previously applied to college but were not currently enrolled – information …
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can be driven either by marginal students induced to enroll by financial aid, or by inframarginal students who would have … students rather than the combined effect on marginal and inframarginal students by examining a change in financial aid that did … to financially independent students. I find that financial aid received by needier students is more likely to positively …
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This report provides a detailed overview of the student loan market, presents new statistics that highlight student loan debt burdens and delinquency rates, and discusses current concerns among many Americans about student loans, including their fiscal impact. The report is intended to enhance...
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Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have already enrolled in college. To do so, we exploit a unique non …
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