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A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using data extracted from the longitudinal...
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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 …
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I use the introduction of a competitive fellowship program for graduate students to test whether men and women respond … performance in response to the program, with the largest gains for men in departments with the most female students. Women did not …
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A common justification for HOPE-style merit-aid programs is to promote and reward academic achievement, thereby inducing greater investments in human capital. However, grade-based eligibility and retention rules encourage other behavioral responses. Using data extracted from the longitudinal...
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-taking behavior is concentrated on students whose GPAs place them on or below the scholarship-retention margin. Third, program effect …
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We evaluate the effect of performance-based scholarship programs for postsecondary students on student time use and … effort and whether these effects are different for students we hypothesize may be more or less responsive to incentives. To … do so, we administered a time-use survey as part of a randomized experiment in which community college students in New …
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financial motivations for and the effects of employment on U.S. college students' academic performance. The data confirm the … hours students work while in school, although students are not very responsive to these financial motivations. They also …
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students living in public housing communities where the program was offered to those living in communities where the program …
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