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Fe y Alegria is an organization working in many developing countries as a public-private partnership. This study estimates the effect of one Fe y Alegria school in Peru on mathematics and reading comprehension among second grade primary pupils, between 2007 and 2012. The identification strategy...
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Launched in 2004, the Carolina Covenant combines grant-heavy financial aid with an array of non-financial supports for low-income students at an elite public university. We find that the program increased four-year graduation rates by about 8 percentage points for eligible students in the...
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We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid and later added a suite of non-financial supports. We find little to no evidence that program eligibility during the early years (2004–2006), in which students received...
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This paper examines how financial aid reform based on postsecondary institutional performance impacts student choice. Federal and state regulations often reflect concerns about the private, for-profit sector's poor employment outcomes and high loan defaults, despite the sector's possible...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has made a major impact on higher education and affected students’ livelihoods and attainment of … education. To help students during these challenging times the Federal CARES Act was established to provide financial relief and … education by assessing the current factors associated with the national funding model. Additionally, three additional models …
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of Education to issue temporary waivers (which expire in October of 2022) which essentially provide a path to forgiveness …
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-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …
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By exploiting rich retrospective data on childhood immunization, socioeconomics, and health status in China (the China …-term positive and economically meaningful effects on nonhealth outcomes such as education and cognitive skills. These effects are …
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to private colleges. We also observe significant general equilibrium effects in secondary and postsecondary education … institutions (but not public institutions).Demand for top private education shifted to the right, driving admission rates downward …
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This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and … outcomes. Over the last two decades – through three major reforms in 1998, 2006 and 2012 – undergraduate university education … school-aged children) from lower education to higher education, we document the socio-economic distributional effects of the …
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