| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w20800 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 20800 |
| Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid | |
| Joshua Angrist; David Autor; Sally Hudson; Amanda Pallais | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-01-12 |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Does financial aid increase college attendance and completion? Selection bias and the high implicit tax rates imposed by overlapping aid programs make this question difficult to answer. This paper reports initial findings from a randomized evaluation of a large privately-funded scholarship program for applicants to Nebraska’s public colleges and universities. Our research design answers the challenges of aid evaluation with random assignment of aid offers and a strong first stage for aid received: randomly assigned aid offers increased aid received markedly. This in turn appears to have boosted enrollment and persistence, while also shifting many applicants from two- to four-year schools. Awards offered to nonwhite applicants, to those with relatively low academic achievement, and to applicants who targeted less-selective four-year programs (as measured by admissions rates) generated the largest gains in enrollment and persistence, while effects were much smaller for applicants predicted to have stronger post-secondary outcomes in the absence of treatment. Thus, awards enabled groups with historically-low college attendance to ‘level up,’ largely equalizing enrollment and persistence rates with traditionally college-bound peers, particularly at four-year programs. Awards offered to prospective community college students had little effect on college enrollment or the type of college attended. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w20800 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/578493 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua Angrist,David Autor,Sally Hudson,et al. Leveling Up: Early Results from a Randomized Evaluation of Post-Secondary Aid. 2015. |
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