). Unfortunately most financial aid research focuses on students enrolled in 4-year colleges and comparing students across high, medium … investigating the affects of financial aid among low-SES students and even less investigating the ways in which need-based financial … aid affects student outcomes for low-income students. Using FAFSA data from 2003-04 Illinois college-bound students and …

-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 …