Beyond the enrolment gap: Financial barriers and high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education
Gustave Kenedi
CEP Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
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Little is known about what influences high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education, despite extensive work on their enrolment decision. This paper investigates the role of credit constraints. Using exhaustive administrative data for France, I estimate the impact of automatically granting generous additional aid to enrolled high-achieving, low-income students. Eligibility is communicated too late to affect initial enrolment, allowing me to recover the pure effect on the intensive margin. I find this aid had precisely estimated null effects on persistence, graduation, and did not induce switches to higher quality degrees. This suggests non-financial factors largely explain these students' observed attrition.
Keywords: financial aid; higher education; high-achieving low-income students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-04-11
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