-income students in Colombia. We use national level data along with a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impact of the … program. The results confirm that the program was effective in terms of increasing the potential number of low-income students … at the margin who would have enrolled in college, decreasing the number of students who dropped out, and increasing their …

This paper studies the impact of changing tuition on students' preferences for college degrees. In particular, it … model, I find that while tuition increases discouraged students from choosing those degrees, the effect was small as the … estimated price elasticity of students' preferences is low. The estimated responses are however heterogeneous across income …

indirect. This paper provides direct evidence by comparing university enrollment rates of potential South African students …

I develop and estimate a structural equilibrium model of the college market. Students, having heterogeneous abilities … only noisy measures of student ability, choose tuition and admissions policies to compete for more able students. Tuition …

The current study explored differences in financial behaviors between college students in Georgia who retained the … undergraduate students from a large southeastern university. Students who initially had HOPE Scholarships but lost them were less … students who retained HOPE Scholarships. The results suggest that students who had lost the HOPE Scholarship may be more …

The time is approaching when Vietnamese higher education students will be required to contribute more to the direct …

tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education …. Although studies have shown that poor high school students are indeed able to attend college when their test scores are high … students have sufficient amounts of aid to thrive in college.Using findings from a randomized controlled trial, this study …

freshmen students following Georgia's HOPE scholarship program. How did HOPE affect the selectivity of colleges attended by … Georgia's freshmen students? Did it induce Georgia's freshmen students who would have otherwise attended more selective out …

I analyze the effects of a program that pays both 11th and 12th grade students and teachers for passing scores on … Advanced Placement exams on college outcomes. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, I find that affected students of all … freshman year. Moreover, the program improves college outcomes even for those students who would have enrolled in college …