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Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2015
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of employment subsidies and one of the oldest forms of student aid. The Federal Work-Study program (FWS) is the largest student employment subsidy program; since 1964, it has provided about $1 billion per year to cover 75 percent of wages for student employees, who typically work on campus…
Descriptors: Work Study Programs, Federal Programs, Outcomes of Education, Student Employment
Soliz, Adela; Long, Bridget Terry – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2016
Due to rising costs and declining affordability, many students have to work while attending college. The federal government takes a major role in subsidizing the wages of college students and spent over $1 billion on the Work-Study program in 2010-11 (College Board, 2011), yet little is known about how working during the school year impacts…
Descriptors: Student Employment, College Students, Work Study Programs, Federal Programs
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
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 effects for marginal and inframarginal workers. We then…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Financial Support, Student Financial Aid, Federal Aid
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica – Center for Analysis of Postsecondary Education and Employment, 2014
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. This document contains the appendices to the report "Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the…
Descriptors: Student Employment, Financial Support, Student Financial Aid, Program Effectiveness