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 …

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 …

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 …

I evaluate a financial aid policy which automatically granted 1,800 euros annually to low-income students scoring in … the top 5% of high school students and enrolling in higher education. Using a regression discontinuity design, I find that …. These null results do not appear to be driven by (i) students being unaware of this aid, (ii) crowding out of parents …

Every year, governments allocate considerable amounts of resources to support students' access and performance in … higher education. Grants and loans are directed to those students for whom college would seem unaffordable otherwise. These … programs are justified on the grounds of how they help students access, persist and graduate from higher education. However …

-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 …

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 …

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

-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 …