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Intended College Attendance : Evidence from an Experiment on College Returns and Cost

Bleemer, Zachary - 2015

potential explanation for these patterns. For this purpose, we conduct an information experiment about college returns and costs … socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps – specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs – as a … outcomes of interest. Respondents are then randomly exposed to one of two information treatments, which respectively provide …

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Incentives and Services for College Achievement : Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Angrist, Joshua D.; Lang, Daniel; Oreopoulos, Philip - 2021

on a randomized field experiment involving two strategies designed to improve academic performance among entering full …

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Can State Language Policies Distort Students' Demand for Higher Education?

Muravyev, Alexander - 2011

This paper takes advantage of a recent policy experiment in Ukraine's secondary education system to study the effect of …

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The Returns to Four-Year College for Academically Marginal Students

Zimmerman, Seth D. - 2011

I combine a regression discontinuity design with rich data on academic and labor market outcomes for a large sample of Florida students to identify the returns to four-year college for students on the academic margin of college admission. In addition, I develop a theoretical model of college...

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Grades, Aspirations and Post-Secondary Education Outcomes

Christofides, Louis N. - 2012

We explore the forces that shape the development of aspirations and the achievement of grades during high school and the role that these aspirations, grades, and other variables play in educational outcomes such as going to university and graduating. We find that parental expectations and peer...

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The Effects of Credit Status on College Attainment and College Completion

Gicheva, Dora - 2012

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance college. Access to these credit lines and the interest rates charged on these loans can vary significantly across credit scores. In this paper, we analyze if credit status, as...

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State Merit-Aid Programs and College Major : A Focus on Stem

Sjoquist, David L. - 2013

Since 1991 more than two dozen states have adopted merit-based student financial aid programs, intended at least in part to increase the stock of human capital by improving the knowledge and skills of the state's workforce. At the same time, there has been growing concern that the U.S. is...

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...

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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. - 2007

Students from low-income families are eligible to student aid under the federal students' financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) in Germany. We evaluate the effectiveness of a recent reform of student aid that substantially increased the amount received by eligible students to raise enrolment...

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The Effects of State-Sponsored Merit Scholarships on Course Selection and Major Choice in College

Cornwell, Christopher - 2006

A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using data extracted from the longitudinal...

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