concern to prospective students and their parents as well as to policymakers. Our study examines the allocation of constant …

high school graduates over three decades. We model prospective students' decisions about whether to attend community … college enrollment overall, rising costs at community colleges diverted other students to four-year colleges. Rising relative … costs of four-year public colleges similarly diverted some students toward community colleges but did not limit college …

This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and … measure of student-to-degree match employing minimal assumptions. We find that students who are the first in the family to … contrast, only the highest achieving female students relatively undermatch. These gaps are larger at the application stage. We …

high school students and, if so, whether the effect on individuals from low-income households is particularly strong. We …

can be driven either by marginal students induced to enroll by financial aid, or by inframarginal students who would have … students rather than the combined effect on marginal and inframarginal students by examining a change in financial aid that did … to financially independent students. I find that financial aid received by needier students is more likely to positively …

prospective students do not know about tax benefits for credits or because the design of tax credits is not conducive to affecting … using a sample of over 1 million students or prospective students in Texas. We sent emails and letters to students that …, already enrolled students, and students who had previously applied to college but were not currently enrolled – information …

This paper investigates the impact of changes in the funding of higher education in England on students' choices and … in public universities moved from being free to students and state funded to charging substantial tuition fees to all … students. This was done in conjunction with the government offering generous means-tested maintenance grants and loans. Using …

all eligible students receive financial aid due to limited resources to generate a treatment and a control group. Using … this partition, we estimate the average treatment effect, i.e. the average effect on low income students, controlling for a … a sizeable effect of grants in reducing dropping out from higher education: around one third of these students would …