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Nabaneeta Biswas; Poulomi Dasgupta – Studies in Higher Education, 2024
The United States has widely experimented with merit-based financial aid to make college more accessible and affordable for its youth. Varying in design and benefits, these state-run programs subsidize college costs for academically meritorious high-school graduates. While broadly linked to higher college attendance the distribution of aid…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, Eligibility, Student Financial Aid, Change
Samuel Lawrence Rhoads Glick – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This dissertation studies the market for higher education and impacts of higher education policy on the market. In the first chapter, I estimate the short-run elasticity of supply of higher education using the rollout of state merit grant programs as plausibly exogenous variation in student demand for in-state higher education. I find that public…
Descriptors: Merit Scholarships, Public Colleges, Private Colleges, Federal Aid
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2023
Each year, NASSGAP completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid and illustrates the extent of efforts made by the states to assist postsecondary students. Information in this report is based on academic year…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Grants, National Organizations
Douglas N. Harris; Jonathan Mills – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
We provide evidence about college financial aid from an eight-year randomized trial where high school ninth graders received a $12,000 merit-based grant offer. The program was designed to be free of tuition/fees at community colleges and substantially lower the cost of four-year colleges. During high school, it increased students' college…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, High School Students, Grade 9, Merit Scholarships
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2022
Each year, the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid and illustrates the extent of efforts made by the states to assist…
Descriptors: State Aid, Student Financial Aid, Grants, National Organizations
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LaSota, Robin R.; Polanin, Joshua R.; Perna, Laura W. – Grantee Submission, 2022
The purpose of this study was to report on the effects of a comprehensive set of postsecondary grant aid programs on outcomes from initial college enrollment to post-college employment, based on a systematic review of the literature from January 2002 to January 2020. Studies that used randomized-controlled trials, regression discontinuity designs,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Student Financial Aid, Grants, Outcomes of Education
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2020
Each year, National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid and illustrates the extent of efforts made by the states to assist postsecondary…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
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González Canché, Manuel S. – Educational Policy, 2023
Becoming HOPEless in the 2-year sector addresses the question: "what happens when a state-wide policy removes merit-based financial aid from low-income students making satisfactory academic progress?" To assess the magnitude of this HOPEless effect, we compared credits attempted, attained, and persistence and graduation indicators of…
Descriptors: Two Year Colleges, Two Year College Students, Low Income Students, State Policy
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2019
Each year, National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report, the 50th annual survey, represents data from academic year 2018-19. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
Burczek Dreier, John – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The creation of the Tennessee Education Lottery Scholarship (TELS) program provides a natural experiment where a difference-in-differences estimation design is employed to isolate how state merit aid funding may lead institutions to change their institutional grant aid. Principal agent and resource dependence theories together establish state and…
Descriptors: State Aid, Merit Scholarships, Grants, Competitive Selection
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Caskey, John P. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2018
College-provided scholarships, or tuition discounts, are in the news. The National Association of College and University Business Officers recently estimated that the average discount for full-time, first-year undergraduates at private nonprofit colleges and universities hit 50 percent in the fall of 2017. In other words, these institutions…
Descriptors: Tuition, Student Financial Aid, Undergraduate Students, Private Colleges
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2018
Each year the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report, the 49th annual survey, represents data from academic year 2017-18. This report provides data regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
Krémó, Anita – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2020
This report presents a comparative overview of the main features of national student fee and financial support systems in European higher education in the 2020/21 academic year. It provides insights on whether any fees are charged to students in higher education, which students may have to pay such fees and how much. It also presents public…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Costs, Student Financial Aid
National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs, 2017
Each year the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs (NASSGAP) completes a survey regarding state-funded expenditures for postsecondary student financial aid. This report, the 48th annual survey, represents data from academic year 2016-17. Data is provided regarding state-funded expenditures for student financial aid and…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Grants, State Aid, Student Loan Programs
Kocanova, Daniela; Crosier, David – Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, European Commission, 2018
This annual report shows how fee and support systems (including grants and loans) interact in higher education in Europe. It provides both a comparative overview and individual country sheets outlining the main elements of national systems. In particular, the publication describes the range of fees charged to students, specifying the categories of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Student Costs, Student Financial Aid
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