Redesigning the Pell Grant Program for the Twenty-First Century
In this discussion paper, the authors argue that the time has come to comprehensively redesign the Pell program, and they propose three major structural reforms to the Pell Grant program.
Financial Aid Policy: Lessons From Research
This article reviews the evidence on various student aid programs and their effects on college enrollment, persistence, and completion and discusses the implications of these findings for aid policy.
The Academic Consequences of Employment for Students Enrolled in Community College
This study examines the effects of student employment on academic outcomes, using a dataset that combines students’ transcripts with earning records from the Unemployment Insurance system.
The Causal Effect of Federal Work-Study Participation
This journal article uses administrative data from West Virginia to provide the first quasi-experimental estimates of the effect of the Federal Work Study (FWS) program.
On Money and Motivation: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis of Financial Incentives for College Achievement
This paper uses a quasi-experimental approach to identify causal effects of West Virginia’s PROMISE scholarship program, which offers free tuition to students who maintain a minimum GPA and course load.