State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment

David Sjoquist and John Winters

No 1408, Economics Working Paper Series from Oklahoma State University, Department of Economics and Legal Studies in Business

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of state merit-based student aid programs on college attendance and degree completion. Our primary analysis uses micro data from the 2000 Census and 2001 2010 American Community Survey to estimate the effects of exposure to merit programs on educational outcomes for 25 states that adopted such programs by 2004. We also utilize administrative data for the University System of Georgia to look more in depth at the effects of exposure to the HOPE Scholarship on degree completion. We find strong consistent evidence that exposure to state merit aid programs has no meaningfully positive effect on college completion.

Keywords: merit aid; HOPE; college attainment; degree completion; higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I23 J24 R28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 53 pages
Date: 2014-04
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Journal Article: STATE MERIT-BASED FINANCIAL AID PROGRAMS AND COLLEGE ATTAINMENT (2015)
Working Paper: State Merit-based Financial Aid Programs and College Attainment (2012)
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