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Jaime Thomas; Naihobe Gonzalez; Breyon Williams; Nora Paxton; Jensen Hu; Andrew Wiegand; Leela Hebbar – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
Pell Grants are the cornerstone of federal financial aid for students with low income who are enrolled in postsecondary education. Currently, these grants are available only to those who seek an initial undergraduate degree or credential requiring at least a typical semester of instruction. Because these rules may restrict access to programs…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Job Training, Microcredentials
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Jaime Thomas; Naihobe Gonzalez; Breyon Williams; Nora Paxton; Jensen Hu; Andrew Wiegand; Leela Hebbar – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2024
This appendix volume supplements report NCEE 2025-005r, describing the effects of two experimental Pell Grant expansions: the first allowed income-eligible students with a bachelor's degree to obtain this form of federal financial aid for short-term occupational training programs and the second allowed income-eligible students to obtain this aid…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Job Training, Microcredentials
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Daniel Corral; James Dean Ward – Review of Higher Education, 2024
This study focuses on tuition reset policies, where colleges reduce the published sticker price by at least 5%, and in many instances, much more. We use a difference-in-differences design to examine the effect of these policies on student enrollment disaggregated by race/ethnicity and a proxy for economic disadvantage. On average, these policies…
Descriptors: Student Costs, Tuition, Private Colleges, Bachelors Degrees
Rebecca K. Woolston; Madeleine R. Kerrick; Jaquelyn Caro-Sena – Education Insights Center, 2024
From 2016-2023, College Futures Foundation supported several California State University (CSU) campuses to partner with California community colleges in their regions to increase the number of students transferring from community colleges and completing bachelor's degrees at the CSU. In an effort to learn more about this work, College Futures…
Descriptors: State Universities, Community Colleges, Transfer Programs, Institutional Cooperation
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Card, David; Solis, Alex – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
Governments around the world use grant and loan programs to ease the financial constraints that contribute to socioeconomic gaps in college completion. A growing body of research assesses the impact of grants; less is known about how loan programs affect persistence and degree completion. We use detailed administrative data from Chile to provide…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Academic Persistence, Educational Attainment, Bachelors Degrees
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Titus, Marvin A. – Tertiary Education and Management, 2020
Using an output distance function as an analytic framework, stochastic frontier analysis (SFA), and a generalized true random effects (GTRE) model, this study examines the financial context of bachelor's degree production efficiency among public master's colleges and universities (MCUs) in the United States. Employing a GTRE model, degree…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Bachelors Degrees, Educational Finance, Efficiency
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Mabel, Zachary – Research in Higher Education, 2020
Little is known about the effects of need-based financial aid disbursed late into college and how students respond when they approach lifetime limits for receiving aid. I exploit changes to federal Pell Grant eligibility rules that reduced the lifetime availability for grant aid from 9 to 6 full-time-equivalent years to examine these questions.…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Student Financial Aid, College Students, Federal Aid
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Brake, Nicholas – Educational Planning, 2023
This research examines the dual credit and early college program options for school districts planning high school and college collaborations. It utilizes a quasi-experimental design from existing data at a community college that has a well-established dual credit and early college program that offers the students the option of Pell in high school…
Descriptors: Dual Enrollment, Acceleration (Education), College Preparation, School Districts
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Wright-Kim, Jeremy; Perna, Laura W.; Ruiz, Roman – Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory & Practice, 2022
This study uses data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and Delta Cost Project to identify institutional predictors of bachelor's degree completion rates for Pell Grant recipients and nonrecipients at public and private not-for-profit 4-year institutions. Descriptive analyses show that Pell recipients are relatively…
Descriptors: Grants, Student Financial Aid, Predictor Variables, College Graduates
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Kelchen, Robert – Journal of Student Financial Aid, 2021
Parent PLUS loans are a growing concern due to their limited income-driven repayment protections and their potential to maintain longstanding racial wealth gaps. Previous research has examined factors associated with student debt burdens of college graduates, but no research has examined factors related to parent borrowing for college. In this…
Descriptors: Student Loan Programs, Debt (Financial), Loan Repayment, Federal Aid
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Tucker, Frederick – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2021
Deregulation of for-profit colleges led to a precipitous rise in enrollments from 1990 to 2010. Since 2010, regulation, investigations, and sanctions have led to enrollment declines in for-profit postsecondary institutions. Initially barred from receiving Title IV federal funds, in the form of Pell Grants and Stafford Loans, for-profit colleges…
Descriptors: Proprietary Schools, Colleges, Outcomes of Education, Student Loan Programs
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Thomas, Jaime; Gonzalez, Naihobe; Paxton, Nora; Wiegand, Andrew; Hebbar, Leela – National Center for Education Evaluation and Regional Assistance, 2020
These are the appendices for the report "The Effects of Expanding Pell Grant Eligibility for Short Occupational Training Programs: Results from the Experimental Sites Initiative." Four appendices are included in the document: (1) Implementation of the 2011 Pell Experiments; (2) Study Design and Analytic Approach; (3) Supporting Details…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Grants, Eligibility, Vocational Education
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Pirra, Miriam; Carboni, Angela; Diana, Marco – Education Sciences, 2020
Serious gaps are found when evaluating the recognition and inclusion of gender aspects in transport strategies, research and innovation. Similar issues can be spotted in the transport labor market, where only 22% of workers are women at the European level. The roots of these limitations are in the low participation of women in Science, Technology,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Gender Bias, Disproportionate Representation, Equal Education
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Canal Domínguez, Juan Francisco; Rodríguez Gutiérrez, César – Quality in Higher Education, 2019
This research using a time survival model is aimed at analysing which factors determine the time it took Spanish university graduates to find their first job during the 2009--15 period, a time framework where the Spanish economy underwent the worst effects of the financial crisis. As far as training is concerned, both the type of degree (bachelor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, Economic Climate, College Graduates
Carlson, Deven E.; Elwert, Felix; Hillman, Nicholas; Schmidt, Alex; Wolfe, Barbara L. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2019
In this pre-registered study, we analyze the effects of need-based financial aid grant offers on the educational outcomes of low-income college students based on a large-scale randomized experiment (n=48,804). We find evidence that the grant offers increase two-year persistence by 1.7 percentage points among four-year college students. The…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Low Income Students, College Students, Academic Persistence
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