We evaluate the effects of academic achievement awards for first and second-year college students on a Canadian … 70 for second-year students, but there was no significant effect on overall GPA. Results are somewhat stronger for a …

, we show that this law change had a large negative impact on the college attendance of students with drug convictions. On … enrollment by about two years, and we also present suggestive evidence that affected students were less likely to ever enroll in … college. Students living in urban areas and those whose mothers did not attend college appear to be the most affected by these …

-income students. This implies that there is scope for a policy to redirect loan dollars – and therefore students – from low …

federal student loans to students who have received information about financial aid but have not made a borrowing decision. A … treatment reminding students that they need not borrow the maximum amount of available loan aid does not affect borrowing …. Treatments referencing amounts borrowed by recent graduates shift students from borrowing the maximum amount to not borrowing …

aid could reduce student loan defaults without restricting prospective students' access to higher education. We examine …, market enrollment declines by just 3 percent. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to enroll in …

This paper assesses the importance of price regulation and price discrimination to low-income students' access to … data on Texas public university students from 2000 to 2009 matched to earnings records, financial aid, and new measures of … tuition and resources at a program level to assess how deregulation affected the representation of disadvantaged students in …