Does financial aid help poor students succeed in college?

Xiaobing Wang, Chengfang Liu, Linxiu Zhang, Ai Yue, Yaojiang Shi, James Chu and Scott Rozelle

China Economic Review, 2013, vol. 25, issue C, 27-43

Abstract: The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students are indeed able to attend college when their test scores are high enough (that is, few are unable to attend when they are qualified to attend), the literature has not explored whether poor students have sufficient amounts of aid to thrive in college.

Keywords: College; Financial aid; Stress; Self-esteem; Randomized controlled trial; China (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A22 C93 I24 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2013.01.003

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