How You Pay Affects How You Do: Financial Aid Type and Student Performance in College

Peter Cappelli and Shinjae Won

No 22604, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Students receiving financial aid pay different amounts for equivalent education and do so in different ways: Grants, which do not have to be repaid, loans, which are paid back in the future, and work-study, pay-as-you-go. We examine the effects of need-based aid independent of study ability on student outcomes – grade point average in particular - controlling for student background and attributes they had prior to college. We also analyze grades within colleges. The results suggest that students receiving need-based grants do significantly better in college than those not receiving financial aid while those paying for college with loans perform significantly worse than students receiving other forms of aid.

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Date: 2016-09
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