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Gurantz, Oded – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2018
Do tuition vouchers and cash subsidies promote educational or labor force outcomes for "non-traditional" students? I use a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of a state aid program with an unobserved eligibility cutoff. Eligibility has no impact on degree completion for students with a preference for community…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Nontraditional Students, Eligibility
Bettinger, Eric; Gurantz, Oded; Kawano, Laura; Sacerdote, Bruce – Stanford Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2016
We examine the impacts of being awarded a Cal Grant, among the most generous state merit aid programs. We exploit variation in eligibility rules using GPA and family income cutoffs that are ex ante unknown to applicants. Cal Grant eligibility increases degree completion by 2 to 5 percentage points in our reduced form estimates. Cal Grant also…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, Grants, State Aid, Eligibility