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 quot …

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

all eligible students receive financial aid due to limited resources to generate a treatment and a control group. Using … this partition, we estimate the average treatment effect, i.e. the average effect on low income students, controlling for a … a sizeable effect of grants in reducing dropping out from higher education: around one third of these students would …

of students, though rates have risen at flagship universities. Finally, despite some weak association with increased …

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance …

(baseline: 69%) for high-school graduates who come from a state with tuition fees. Moreover, we find that students with lower … high-school grades react more strongly to tuition fees. This might have important effects on the composition of students …

's HOPE Scholarship has affected students' college major decisions, with a focus on STEM majors. We find consistent evidence …