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 cohorts who experienced the fully developed program. For these cohorts … performance. We conclude that aid programs targeting low-income, high-ability students are most successful when they couple grant …

to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the U.S. and around the world. More students are receiving more aid today … outside the U.S. on the causal impact of a variety of financial aid policies and programs on students' college decisions …

liquidity effect. By restricting credit supply to college students, the CARD Act of 2009 has inadvertently inhibited the ability … of liquidity-constrained students to remain in college when their earnings unexpectedly fall, resulting in a stronger …

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 …

We conduct a study under 2,400 third grade students at three large secondary comprehensive schools to evaluate a gifted … tracks at different schools) to get difference-in-differences (DD) estimates for all students above the admission cutoff …. Second, we use the GT admission rule to get regression discontinuity (RD) estimates for students near the admission cutoff …

We conduct a survey-based experiment with 2,776 students at a non-profit university to analyze income insurance demand … in education financing. We offered students a hypothetical choice: either a federal loan with income-driven repayment or … ISA uptake by 43%. We observe that students are responsive to changes in contract terms and possible student loan …

-ability prospective students and college and university administrators. In this paper we use a decade of Colgate University Admitted … matriculation of high-ability students. We find that the school choice of students is more responsive to changes in rank the higher … (better) a school is ranked. This result generally holds for aided and full pay students; however, the exception is that …

to students on the basis both of financial need and academic (and other) merit, with merit influencing not only total …-secondary education, both whether and where they attend are importantly influenced by family background. Among students who score well on …, while only about 75% of those from low SES backgrounds do. High-income students are also more likely to attend private …