Cash-on-Hand & College Enrollment: Evidence from Population Tax Data and Policy Nonlinearities

Dayanand Manoli and Nick Turner

No 19836, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We estimate causal effects of cash-on-hand on college enrollment decisions of students from low-income families. Using population-level, administrative data from United States income tax returns, we exploit variation in tax refunds received in the spring of the high school senior year. The variation in tax refunds results from the kink point between the phase-in and maximum credit portions of the Earned Income Tax Credit schedule. The results suggest tax refunds received in the spring of the high school senior year have meaningful effects on college enrollment.

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Date: 2014-01
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