State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the …

affects students' schooling decisions after graduation from junior high school. By using a longitudinal dataset of 2348 … students in two counties, we use ordinary least squares and propensity score matching to evaluate the impact of this program on … find that the effects of the program among middle-income students are stronger compared with those of other groups. And we …

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 …