Multifaceted Aid for Low-Income Students and College Outcomes: Evidence from North Carolina

Charles Clotfelter (), Steven W. Hemelt and Helen Ladd

No 22217, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We study the evolution of a campus-based aid program for low-income students that began with grant-heavy financial aid and later added a suite of non-financial supports. We find little to no evidence that program eligibility during the early years (2004-2006), in which students received additional institutional grant aid and few non-financial supports, improved postsecondary progress, performance, or completion. In contrast, program-eligible students in more recent cohorts (2007-2010), when the program supplemented grant-heavy aid with an array of non-financial supports, were more likely to meet credit accumulation benchmarks toward timely graduation and earned higher GPAs than their barely ineligible counterparts.

JEL-codes: I22 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05
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Published as Charles T. Clotfelter & Steven W. Hemelt & Helen F. Ladd, 2018. "MULTIFACETED AID FOR LOW-INCOME STUDENTS AND COLLEGE OUTCOMES: EVIDENCE FROM NORTH CAROLINA," Economic Inquiry, vol 56(1), pages 278-303.

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