intervention of asset building (Percorsi) on high school students' transition to the university. Contrary to most traditional forms … strong conditionality in the use of the benefits. The experiment, called ACHAB (Affording College with the Help of Asset … Building) has been carried out in the province of Torino (Northwest Italy) between 2014 and 2017. For the evaluation purpose …

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 …

concentrated among higher and medium-ability students, while lower-ability students receiving financial assistance are discouraged …

eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students' applications but varied by gender and academic performance. Highperforming … male students shifted their First-Ranked application from non-selective to selective long-term programs. Yet, female … students did not show a systematic response. We suggest that female students were more certain in their application choices …

application decisions for all students, but it impacted students differently based on gender and academic performance. High …-performing male students showed the strongest reaction, shifting their first-ranked application from non-selective long …-term universities to selective long-term programs. On average, female students, regardless of performance, did not show a systematic …

aid targets price-sensitive students. Leveraging a reform in Brazil's student loan program, we provide descriptive … by 3%, while need-based targeting raises tuition by only 0.4%. This difference arises because low-income students …

immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students … during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college campuses, and the city's shutdown. Low-income students are identified by … whether they ever received the federal Pell Grant. We find that low-income college students were 8% more likely than general …

This paper exploits discontinuities in the assigment of scholarships targeted at low income students in an Italian … University in order to evaluate the effects of monetary incentives on students' academic achievement. Results reveal positive and … sizeable causal effects both in terms of credits and grades. Gender differentials also emerge: male students drive the results …

Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have already enrolled in college. To do so, we exploit a unique non …