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Direct linkBirch, Matthew; Rosenman, Robert – Research in Higher Education, 2019
Merit aid is an increasingly important component of college scholarships, but policymakers are concerned that merit aid is often given to students who would enroll anyway. As a baseline we use a regression discontinuity (RD) framework to test an institution-level merit aid program at a public research university and find that the merit aid program…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, College Attendance, Enrollment, College Students
