The provision of grant aid is important to students' postsecondary opportunities and success.
It is well established that grant aid increases the probability of enrollment in postsecondary …

Economic inequality can have a range of negative consequences for those in younger
generations, particularly for those from lower-socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds …

We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past
half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job …

The increasing tension between the perceived necessity of a college degree and the
challenge of paying for it has led to a proliferation of financial aid policy in the United States …

Over the past decade, but especially in the past few years, programs with a promise label
have been advanced at the local, state, and federal levels. To advance understanding of the …

Promise programs are proliferating across the United States, with wide variation in their
design. Using national data on 33 Promise programs affecting single, 2-year colleges, this …

Early research on the returns to higher education treated the postsecondary system as a
monolith. In reality, postsecondary education in the United States and around the world is …

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This paper examines the Oregon Promise, a state‐level program that exclusively subsidizes
in‐state community college attendance. I estimate impacts using a difference‐in‐difference …

As tuition-free college policies spread rapidly across the states, an increasingly important
policy debate has emerged regarding the optimal policy design of tuition-free college …