Socioeconomic gaps in college enrollment and attainment have widened over time, despite
increasing returns to postsecondary education and significant policy efforts to improve …

Nonfinancial barriers to college are an important possible explanation for socioeconomic,
racial, gender, and other gaps in college access and success. A sizeable economic …

ing researchers nationwide to summarize the state of college access and success and to
provide recommendations for how institutional leaders and policymakers can effectively …

The student financial aid programs that were authorized under Title IV of the Higher
Education Act were intended to ensure that inadequate financial resources would not limit …

Background/Context The essay provides a comprehensive review of work by economists
and others in related quantitative disciplines on the transition of students to college. A …

Since 1980, the gap in college participation rates between low-income and high-income
students and between minorities and whites has widened substantially, creating new …

We review the experimental and quasi-experimental research evidence on the causal
relationship between college costs and educational attainment, with a particular focus on …

At a time when college enrollment rates for low income and under-represented students are
far below those of non-minority students, policies and practices designed to increase access …

PromiseAbandoned (HE).indd Page 1 How Policy Choices and Institutional Practices Restrict
College Opportunities By Kati Haycock A Report By the Education Trust August 2006 ® We …

Though economists have spent the past decade analyzing the rising payoff to schooling, we
know much less about the responses of youth or the effectiveness of policies aimed at …