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 …

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 …

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 …

analyses with individual fixed effects, we evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on lower-income students' academic … performance during the spring 2020 semester relative to their higher-income peers. We find a differential effect by students' pre …-COVID-19 academic performance. Top-performing lower-income students experienced a decrease in both grades (5% lower) and earned …

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 …

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

immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students … during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college campuses, and the city's shutdown. Low-income students are identified by … whether they ever received the federal Pell Grant. We find that low-income college students were 8% more likely than general …

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and … in public universities moved from being free to students and state funded to charging substantial tuition fees to all … students. This was done in conjunction with the government offering generous means-tested maintenance grants and loans. Using …

charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with … register data covering the universe of students to show that tuition fees increased degree completion among incumbent students …. Investigating mechanisms, we do not find that educational quality changed but that incumbent students raised their study effort. In …