and students' ability to pay post-graduation. Exploiting the staggered adoption of these policies across universities …, this paper finds that differential pricing does alter the allocation of students to majors, though heterogeneity across …

number of for-profit institutions is double the official count and the number of students enrolled during the year is between … students cannot apply for federal financial aid. The dollar value of the premium is about equal to the amount of grant aid and … loan subsidy received by students in eligible institutions, lending some credence to a variant of the "Bennett hypothesis …

students from low income backgrounds. Using rich data from the Census and administrative sources, we estimate family incomes … very similar to that of previous years. Thus, there are a greater number of low income students in the Class of 2009 than … in the Class of 2008 simply because more well-qualified, low income students applied. Many apparently qualified students …

. Research suggests that complexity in the aid process undermines its effectiveness in inducing more students into college. In …

of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that … hours worked and improves academic outcomes, but has little impact on future employment. For students who would not have …

Banking reforms--that reduced interest rates--boosted college enrollment rates among able students from middle class … families. We define "able" students as those with learning aptitude scores in the top two-thirds of the U.S. population. We …

, heightened confusion among students and parents, and raised concerns about how program rules may interact. In this article, we … of program eligibility and delivery appears to moderate the impact of aid, and for students who have already decided to … students. …