Financial Aid, Tuition, and Student Employment

How do financial aid, merit scholarships, and employment affect student experiences and outcomes?

Latest Publications

NOVEMBER 2018

Is School Out for the Summer? The Impact of Year-Round Pell Grants on Academic and Employment Outcomes of Community College Students

JUNE 2018

What Accounts for Gaps in Student Loan Default, and What Happens After

JANUARY 2018

The Looming Student Loan Crisis Is Worse Than We Thought

SEPTEMBER 2017

Simplifying and Modernizing Pell Grants to Maximize Efficiency and Impact

JUNE 2017

Federal Work-Study: Past Its Prime, or Ripe for Renewal?

APRIL 2017

Undergraduate Financial Aid in the United States

MARCH 2017

Performance Requirements in Need-Based Aid: What Roles Do They Serve, and Do They Work?

MARCH 2017

Does the Federal Work-Study Program Really Work—and for Whom?

MARCH 2017

The Impact of Pell Grant Eligibility on Community College Students’ Financial Aid Packages, Labor Supply, and Academic Outcomes

DECEMBER 2016

Higher Education Rulemaking: The Politics of Creating Regulatory Policy

OCTOBER 2016

Black-White Disparity in Student Loan Debt More Than Triples After Graduation

AUGUST 2016

Financial Aid, Debt Management, and Socioeconomic Outcomes: Post-College Effects of Merit-Based Aid

MAY 2016

Tax Benefits for College Attendance

DECEMBER 2014

Pell Grants as Performance-Based Aid? An Examination of Satisfactory Academic Progress Requirements in the Nation's Largest Need-Based Aid Program

NOVEMBER 2013

Demographic and Academic Characteristics of Pell Grant Recipients at Community Colleges

OCTOBER 2013

Redesigning the Pell Grant Program for the Twenty-First Century

MAY 2013

Financial Aid Policy: Lessons From Research

JUNE 2012

The Academic Consequences of Employment for Students Enrolled in Community College

FEBRUARY 2012

What Explains Trends in Labor Supply Among U.S. Undergraduates, 1970-2009?

JULY 2011

The Causal Effect of Federal Work-Study Participation

JUNE 2011

On Money and Motivation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement

SEPTEMBER 2010

Undocumented Immigrants and State Higher Education Policy: The Politics of In-State Tuition Eligibility in Texas and Arizona

APRIL 2008

What Is Known About the Impact of Financial Aid? Implications for Policy

APRIL 2007

Institutional Responses to State Merit Aid Programs: The Case of Florida Community Colleges

JANUARY 2004

The Unending Search for Equity: California Policy, the "Improved School Finance," and the Williams Case