Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of...

High school students, across the world, prepare for college by participating in shadow education. Despite substantial investments in shadow education, however, little is known about whether it helps students prepare for college. The goal of our study is to provide rigorous evidence about the...

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 it had no significant impact on various higher education...

This paper investigates the impact of the Science without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras) (CSF) programme on participants' post-graduation enrolment, employment, and entrepreneurship. The programme was launched in 2011 to increase students' human capital and interest in science and...

The State of Student Aid and Higher Education in Texas (SOSA) annual report from Trellis Research provides information helpful in informing policy and programs for higher education student financial aid. The report serves as a reference for colleges, universities, and policymakers, and provides...

This paper investigates the key determinants affecting household spending for uni- versity students in Vietnam. We employ innovative variable selection approach with adaptive LASSO for Tobit Regression Model. The results suggest income, region, and ethnicity play significant roles in determining...

I provide estimates of the impact of government cuts on PhD scholarships in Science. I leverage a unique quasi-natural experiment, the staggered cuts made by the Hungarian Government between 2010 and 2021 to expand Orban's political influence over the university system. The political aim of the...

Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Bait –The History of American Colleges and the Creation of Student Loans -- Chapter 2: The Switch – Higher Education as a Public Goods Decays (1965-1992) -- Chapter 3: The Income and Wealth Effects of Student Loan Debt -- Chapter 4: Recent Changes to Student...