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Into College, Out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor
Dynarski, Susan; Deming, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We review the experimental and quasi-experimental research evidence on the causal relationship between college costs and educational attainment, with a particular focus on low-income populations. The weight of the evidence indicates that reducing college costs can increase college entry and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627134
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Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid
Angrist, Joshua; Autor, David; Hudson, Sally; Pallais, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
, particularly at four-year programs. Awards offered to prospective community college students had little effect on college …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119803
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Credit Constraints in Education
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We review studies of the impact of credit constraints on the accumulation of human capital. Evidence suggests that credit constraints are increasingly important for schooling and other aspects of households' behavior. We highlight the importance of early childhood investments, since their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294899
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The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools
Lindert, Peter H.; Go, Sun - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Three factors help to explain why school enrollments in the Northern United States were higher than those in the South and in most of Europe by 1850. One was affordability: the northern states had higher real incomes, cheaper teachers, and greater local tax support. The second was the greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829343
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To Segregate or to Integrate: Education Politics and Democracy
de la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
public spending can be concentrated on fewer students. Comparing across political systems, we find that concentration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005050447
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The Determinants of Public Education Expenditures: Evidence from the States, 1950-1990
Fernandez, Raquel; Rogerson, Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997
personal income and number of students on expenditure on public primary and secondary education. Our analysis suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005575102
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Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family
Caucutt, Elizabeth; Lochner, Lance - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the importance of family borrowing constraints in determining human capital investments in children at early and late ages. We begin by providing new evidence from the Children of the NLSY (CNLSY) which suggests that borrowing constraints bind for at least some families...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584458
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Student Loans and Repayment: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Lochner, Lance; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
have increased. We discuss these trends as well as recent evidence on the extent to which students are able to obtain … student credit arrangements that balance three important objectives: (i) providing credit for students to access college and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123617
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Borrowing Trouble? Student Loans, the Cost of Borrowing, and Implications for the Effectiveness of Need-Based Grant Aid
Marx, Benjamin M.; Turner, Lesley J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
borrowing and educational attainment of students enrolled in a large public university system. Pell Grant aid substantially … reduces borrowing: among students who would borrow in the absence of a Pell Grant, every dollar of Pell Grant aid crowds …-out over $1.80 of loans. A simple model illustrates that our findings are consistent with students facing a fixed cost of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123628
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Decentralizing Education Resources: School Grants in Senegal
Carneiro, Pedro; Meghir, Costas; Koussihouèdé, Oswald; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The impact of school resources on the quality of education in developing countries may depend crucially on whether resources are targeted efficiently. In this paper we use a randomized experiment to analyze the impact of a school grants program in Senegal, which decentralized a portion of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240567