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From subsidies to loans: the effects of a national student finance reform on the choices of secondary school students
Gendre, Alexandra de; Kabátek, Jan - 2021
higher education students by low-interest loans. We show that this reform had a large impact on education choices of … secondary school students, lowering their enrolments in college-preparing tracks and increasing the share of students … that secondary school students respond to the modes of higher education financing well ahead of their graduation, and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609203
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges
Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015
State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346588
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Does more generous student aid increase enrolment rates into higher education? : Evaluating the German student aid reform of 2001
Baumgartner, Hans J. (contributor);  … - 2006
Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme … received by eligible students to raise enrolment rates into tertiary education. We view this reform as a 'natural experiment …
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When need meets merit: the effect of increasing merit requirements in need-based student aid
Agasisti, Tommaso; Bratti, Massimiliano; Minaya, Veronica - 2021
concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549196
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The effect of course shutouts on community college students: evidence from waitlist cutoffs
Robles, Silvia; Gross, Max; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
One frequently cited yet understudied channel through which funding levels impact college students is course ….S. undergraduates and over half of minority students in public colleges. The impacts of course availability in this setting may be … reliance on state funding. Across a range of bandwidths, we find that students stuck on a waitlist and shut out of a course …
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Testing a social innovation in financial aid for low-income students : experimental evidence from Italy
Azzolini, Davide; Martini, Alberto; Rettore, Enrico; … - 2018
intervention of asset building (Percorsi) on high school students' transition to the university. Contrary to most traditional forms … population", i.e. those students who were at risk of giving up their university enrolment decisions because of economic reasons … program are significantly larger for students coming from vocational schools than for students who completed technical or …
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Graduation incentives through conditional student loan forgiveness
Hämäläinen, Ulla; Koerselman, Kristian; Uusitalo, Roope - 2017
findings in the literature that students do not seem to process financial incentives well when framed as a loan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011762077
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In-state college enrollment and later life location decisions
Winters, John V. - 2018
State and local policymakers are very interested in how attending college in one's home state affects the likelihood of living in that state after college. This paper uses cohort-level data from the American Community Survey, decennial censuses, and other sources to examine how birth-state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011959624
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Getting students to stick around : the effects of completing an introductory course on persistence for community college students
Gicheva, Dora; Edmunds, Julie; Hull, Marie; Thrift, Beth - 2022
persistence for community college students. We leverage random assignment of students to instructors for identification … institutional withdrawal for the students in our sample, which is in turn linked to lower likelihood of returning the following … semester. Our findings reinforce the importance of academic momentum: remaining in a course keeps students attached to college …
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