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Ward, James Dean; Corral, Daniel – Research in Higher Education, 2023
Private nonprofit colleges are increasingly using tuition resets, or a decrease in sticker price by at least 5%, to attract new students and counter declining demand. While discounting tuition with institutional aid is a common practice to get accepted students to matriculate and to increase affordability, a tuition reset is a more transparent…
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Tuition, Paying for College, Fees
Bettinger, Eric; Gurantz, Oded; Lee, Monica; Long, Bridget Terry – Research in Higher Education, 2023
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the primary gatekeeper to secure financial aid for college. The federal government instituted two changes to the process in 2017, commonly known as "prior-prior year" FAFSA: (1) an earlier start date that lengthens the filing period and (2) the ability to use completed taxes from…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Paying for College, Financial Aid Applicants, Educational Change
Jabbari, Jason; Despard, Mathieu; Kondratjeva, Olga; Gupta, Brinda; Grinstein-Weiss, Michal – Research in Higher Education, 2023
The number of individuals with student loan debt who do not earn their degrees is on the rise; nevertheless, there is little research that demonstrates their current circumstances and future aspirations. We address this knowledge gap by comparing the financial distresses and re-enrollment aspirations of student debt-holders who started college but…
Descriptors: Financial Problems, Educational Finance, Enrollment, Debt (Financial)
Johnson, Iryna – Research in Higher Education, 2022
When institutions introduce financial aid policies, researchers have an opportunity to study these policies within the framework of a natural experiment. For this methodological note, I use a natural experiment that occurred at the public university when institutional scholarship for all first-time freshmen meeting a minimum high school grade…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, School Holding Power, Student Financial Aid, College Freshmen
González Canché, Manuel S. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Federal financial aid policies for higher education may be classified based on their "for-purchase" and "post-purchase" natures. The former include grants, loans, and workstudy and intend to help students finance or afford college attendance, persistence, and graduation. Post-purchase policies are designed to minimize financial…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs, Low Income Groups
Chan, Roy Y. – Research in Higher Education, 2022
Credit momentum policies, or performance-based financial aid policies, have become increasingly popular among policymakers seeking to improve degree completion rates. This paper examines Indiana's 30-credit-hour completion policy on first-time, full-time students who receive the Twenty-First Century Scholars (TFCS) Promise Program. Using…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, State Policy, College Credits, College Students
Custer, Bradley D.; Akaeze, Hope O. – Research in Higher Education, 2021
State financial aid grant programs are commonly categorized as either need-based, merit-based, or both, but their initial eligibility requirements include many more factors than just financial need and academic merit. A categorization of programs that accounts for all requirements would facilitate a more nuanced and precise understanding of state…
Descriptors: Classification, State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Grants
Nurshatayeva, Aizat; Page, Lindsay C.; White, Carol C.; Gehlbach, Hunter – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Our field experiment extends prior work on college matriculation by testing the extent to which an artificially intelligent (AI) chatbot's outreach and support to college students (N = 4442) reduced summer melt and improved first-year college enrollment at a 4-year university. Specifically, we investigate which students the intervention proves…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Mediated Communication, College Freshmen, Enrollment
Zhu, Qiong; Choi, Junghee; Meng, Yi – Research in Higher Education, 2021
To improve college access for low-income students, an increasing number of public colleges and universities have implemented no-loan policies, where student loans are replaced with institutional grant aid that does not require repayment. Using detailed income measures provided by Mobility Report Card data, this study examines the effect of no-loan…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Low Income Students, Access to Education, Paying for College
Webber, Karen L.; Burns, Rachel – Research in Higher Education, 2021
With enrollments rising in recent years, more than half of all graduate level students in US institutions take on educational loans. Using data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), this study examined educational debt for graduate and professional students in 2000 and 2016 and explored whether significant predictors of debt…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Debt (Financial), Student Financial Aid, Student Loan Programs
Bennett, Christopher; Evans, Brent; Marsicano, Christopher – Research in Higher Education, 2021
In recent decades, several dozen colleges and universities have instituted loan-reduction initiatives (LRIs), such as "no-loan" programs. Institutions frequently cast such initiatives as efforts to increase socioeconomic diversity on campus. Using a difference-in-differences analytic strategy with national institution-level data, we…
Descriptors: Loan Repayment, Federal Aid, Grants, Student Loan Programs
Mabel, Zachary – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Little is known about the effects of need-based financial aid disbursed late into college and how students respond when they approach lifetime limits for receiving aid. I exploit changes to federal Pell Grant eligibility rules that reduced the lifetime availability for grant aid from 9 to 6 full-time-equivalent years to examine these questions.…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Student Financial Aid, College Students, Federal Aid
Fitzpatrick, Dan – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Low-income and racial minority students access college at lower rates than their more-advantaged peers, caused in part by lesser social capital. Low socio-economic status (SES) students' networks of rarely provide help navigating the application and enrollment process, preventing even academically-capable students from competing in the…
Descriptors: Social Capital, Academic Advising, School Counselors, Secondary Schools
Gilpin, Gregory; Kofoed, Michael – Research in Higher Education, 2020
This paper studies the impact of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 that amended employer-sponsored education assistance (ESEA) fringe benefits from taxable to nontaxable for graduate studies. ESEA is an integral part of graduate education finance and is the dominant non-loan source of student aid. Using…
Descriptors: Fringe Benefits, Employers, Private Financial Support, Paying for College
Birch, Matthew; Rosenman, Robert – Research in Higher Education, 2019
Merit aid is an increasingly important component of college scholarships, but policymakers are concerned that merit aid is often given to students who would enroll anyway. As a baseline we use a regression discontinuity (RD) framework to test an institution-level merit aid program at a public research university and find that the merit aid program…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Attendance, Enrollment, College Students