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The impact of student aid eligibility on higher education applications
Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024
This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students'...
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The impact of student aid eligibility on higher education applications
Remigereau, Camille; Schäper, Clara - 2024
This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from the French national centralized platform. We employ a difference-in-differences approach following a change in the income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015179206
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Educational Aid Policy and Inequality : The Case for Merit- and Need-Based Aid
Hadavand, Aboozar - 2018
Using model in which the assignment of skills to tasks is determined by relative productivities and are endougenously determined by ability, access to higher education, and technology, I find the effect of different educational aid schemes (including need-based aid, merit-based aid, or a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931882
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The effectiveness of foreign aid to education : what can be learned?
Riddell, Abby Rubin - 2012
This paper reviews what has been learned over many decades of foreign aid to education. It discusses what works and what does not and in this discussion draws attention to the fact that even a simple assessment requires more than providing a uniform check-list of inputs. It shows the positive...
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Aid Effectiveness Reconsidered : Panel Data Evidence for the Education Sector
Michaelowa, Katharina - 2004
Applying the general question of aid effectiveness to the sector of education, this paper reveals an overall positive effect of development assistance on primary enrolment. However, even the most optimistic estimates clearly show that at any realistic rate of growth, aid will never be able to...
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Using Cash Subsidies to Enhance Student Loan Outcomes for Low-income Students
Lozano-Rojas, Felipe - 2019
Design (RDD), I evaluate a cash subsidy program embedded into the main governmental student loan program in Colombia. I … significant. With respect to the default rates, cash subsidy beneficiaries tend to have lower rates at the cutoff, but this result … is not statistically significant. However, the measure of the subsidy effect on the latter two outcomes is affected by …
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From subsidies to loans : The effects of a national student finance reform on the choices of secondary school students
Gendre, Alexandra de; Kabátek, Jan - 2021
We analyse the effects of a national reform of higher education financing on the decisionmaking of secondary school students in the Netherlands. The reform eliminated a universalsubsidy for higher education students and replaced it by a low-interest loan, causing asubstantive increase in the...
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011491864
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295596
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Designing efficient college and tax policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295805