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 …

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

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 …

-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can … number of university degrees. For students living in remote communities that face above average costs to graduating high …

and labor market outcomes between the disadvantaged and other students, but meaningful gaps also exist within achievement … instead many disadvantaged (and other) students choose general humanities programs at the AA (and even the Bachelor’s or BA …

field experiment, I expose more than 5,000 German students either to general information on federally funded scholarships or …If information asymmetries prevent talented students of non-academic backgrounds from applying for merit-based aid, the … whether information asymmetries exist and decrease students’ likelihood to apply for merit-based scholarships. In a randomized …

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