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

By Judith E. Scott-Clayton. 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Education

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Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, neutral): “Scott-Clayton (2011a) West Virginia's PROMISE scholarship: WV public college tuition waiver for students we earn a 3.0 high school GPA and an ACT score of 21 or higher + maintain a 3.0 college GPA (with credit requirements) Administrative data from public colleges in West Virginia Regression…”
Why Do College Going Interventions Work (2017, positive): “7 Financial aid programs such as California's CalGrant (Kane 2003), Georgia's HOPE Scholarship (Dynarski 2000, Cornwell Mustard and Sridhar 2003 ), and West Virginia's PROMISE scholarship (Scott-Clayton 2011) also have significant impacts on the fraction of high school seniors who attend college.”
Aid for all: College coaching, financial aid, and post-secondary persistence in Tennessee (2016, methodology): “Students have responded to the incentives inherent in performance-based scholarships in other settings (Scott-Clayton, 2011; Patel et al., 2013).”
Affirmative Action and the Quality-Fit Tradeoff (2016, neutral): “Fitzpatrick and Jones (2012) and Sjoquist and Winters (2012) find that the implementation of a state merit aid program does not affect graduation rates, while Scott-Clayton (2011) shows positive effects of state merit aid on collegiate attainment.”
Into College, out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor. NBER Working Paper No. 15387. (2009, neutral): “10 Finally, a recent paper by Scott-Clayton (2009) examines the impact of the PROMISE scholarship, a merit aid program in West Virginia.”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, positive): “…improved rates of degree attainment; and decreases in the loss of talented students to other states by affecting college choice (Bruce & Carruthers, 2014; Carruthers & Ozek, 2013; Cornwall, Mustard, & Sridhar, 2006; Dynarski, 2004, 2008; Pallais, 2009; Scott-Clayton, 2011; Zhang & Ness, 2010).”
Looking beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need-Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation (2016, background): “23 attributable to the relative transparency of merit-based aid programs, such as the Georgia Hope Scholarship (Dynarski, 2008), or renewal requirements that often accompany merit-based aid like the West Virginia PROMISE Scholarship (Scott-Clayton, 2011).”
Using Goals to Motivate College Students: Theory and Evidence From Field Experiments (2020, positive): “…& Bugler, 2004; Cornwell, Lee, & Mustard, 2005; Angrist, Lang, & Oreopoulos, 2009; Cha & Patel, 2010; Leuven, Oosterbeek, & van der Klaauw, 2010; Scott-Clayton, 2011; De Paola, Scoppa, & Nisticò, 2012; Patel & Rudd, 2012; Castleman, 2014; Cohodes & Goodman, 2014).1 In this paper, we aim to…”