Early impacts of the FAFSA requirement in Texas

Sie Won Kim

Economics of Education Review, 2025, vol. 104, issue C

Abstract: In 2021−22, Texas implemented a policy requiring all public high school seniors to complete a financial aid application. This paper examines the early impacts of this requirement on Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates and college enrollment using a difference-in-differences model. First, using a sample of high schools in Texas, I find that the FAFSA requirement increases FAFSA completion rates in public schools by 6.3 percentage points relative to private schools. Second, using a multi-valued discrete treatment, I find positive effects on FAFSA completion rates across all treated schools, ranging from 3.1 to 7 percentage points. Furthermore, this increase in FAFSA completion rates is associated with an increase in college enrollment for schools with lower pre-treatment FAFSA completion rates.

Keywords: Financial aid; FAFSA; Higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H75 I21 I22 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2024.102618

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