public subsidies to attend low-performing for-profit institutions impacts students' college enrollment and completion …, this paper utilizes a difference-in differences strategy to investigate students' enrollment and degree completion … significant state savings but led to relatively small changes in students' postsecondary trajectories. For older, nontraditional …

instead shifts students across higher education sectors. Finally, we provide suggestive evidence that students induced to …

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 …

We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid … years (2004–2006), in which students received additional institutional grant aid and few non-financial supports, improved … postsecondary progress, performance, or completion. In contrast, program-eligible students in more recent cohorts (2007–2010), when …

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

. Immediate enrollment doubled among eligible students, making the SES gap in enrollment disappear among top students. At the … intensive margin, the program shifted students from low-quality institutions into higher-quality institutions, and from public … beneficiaries did not fully crowd out high-SES students from top private schools because supply also expanded. Finally, the program …

I study the effects of the Future to Discover Project, a randomized experiment in which Canadian high school students … intervention greatly improved students' outcomes in the long run by improving academic matching. In contrast, the college grant had …-income students. And that they explain a large part of the gap in four-year college enrollment between high- and low-income students. …