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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 …
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of receiving financial aid for a cohort of students who enrolled at Politecnico … these students for four years, we were able to evaluate the impact of the financial aid on several dimensions of academic … demonstrate that the effect is higher for immigrants, Italians who moved from another region for studying, and students attending …
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The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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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 …
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This paper estimates the effects of a 2008 policy that eliminated tuition fees at public universities in Ecuador. We use a difference-in-differences strategy that exploits variation across cohorts differentially exposed to the policy, as well as geographic variation in access to public...
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public subsidies to attend low-performing for-profit institutions impacts students' college enrollment and completion …, this paper utilizes a difference-in differences strategy to investigate students' enrollment and degree completion … significant state savings but led to relatively small changes in students' postsecondary trajectories. For older, nontraditional …
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In the U.S., need-based college financial aid imposes an implicit financial-aid tax on asset accumulation, but some assets are not taxed. This paper examines the effects of the implicit tax on a family's level of total assets and portfolio composition. We exploit the tax-rate changes on assets...
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For an ever-growing number of students aspiring to higher education, borrowing is essential. Yet the burdens of … indebtedness dis-proportionally harm Black and Latinx students. Debt also undermines the meaning and effect of higher education … access, enabling many who borrow to reach the middle class but still limiting possibilities relative to students who do not …
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extending federal loans to students, while improving lower- and middle-class access to higher education, has enabled the … American students. Specifically, this Article asserts that borrower put rights should be embedded into new student loan … only be rationalized if they were likely to return commensurate value to the school’s students …
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. Specifically, it notes how limited public funding for domestic students has provided strong incentives for PSE schools to attract … full fee-paying international students, whose numbers have risen dramatically in recent years in Canada. The result has … quality and available curriculum of programs delivered to all students. The paper also comments on Ontario plans for …
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