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Card, David; Solis, Alex – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Governments around the world use grant and loan programs to ease the financial constraints that contribute to socioeconomic gaps in college completion. A growing body of research assesses the impact of grants; less is known about how loan programs affect persistence and degree completion. We use detailed administrative data from Chile to provide…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees
Zhu, Zhengren – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
In the United States, transferring from a two-year program to a four-year program has become an increasingly important route toward a bachelor's degree. However, the pathway has an extremely high attrition rate. Utilizing two recent institutional reforms in the University System of Georgia, I show that allowing community colleges to offer…
Descriptors: Graduation Rate, Two Year Colleges, College Transfer Students, Bachelors Degrees
Acton, Riley – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
Recent efforts to increase college access and completion concentrate on reducing tuition rates at community colleges, but researchers and policy makers alike have expressed concern that such reductions may not lead to long-term gains in college completion. In this paper, I use detailed data on students' college enrollment and completion outcomes…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Paying for College, Tuition
Zhu, Qiong; Zhang, Liang – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
We use data from the Baccalaureate and Beyond Longitudinal Study and propensity score weighting methods to estimate the effect of a double major on bachelor's degree recipients' earnings within four years after college graduation. We classify each of a student's two majors in a double major combination as either "higher- or…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Majors (Students), Bachelors Degrees, College Graduates
Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Lacy, T. Austin; Smith, Nichole D. – Education Finance and Policy, 2019
Students increasingly borrow money to attend postsecondary education. Yet, little attention in the literature has been paid to the repayment of student loans, aside from failure indicators like default. This study examines a nationally representative sample of bachelor's degree recipients and the time it takes to reach different repayment…
Descriptors: Loan Repayment, Student Loan Programs, College Graduates, Federal Aid