The Enrollment Effects of Merit‐Based Financial Aid: Evidence from Georgia’s HOPE Program

By Christopher M. Cornwell, David B. Mustard, Deepa J. Sridhar. Journal of Labor Economics, 2006

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Performance-Based Funding in American Higher Education: A Systematic Synthesis of the Intended and Unintended Consequences (2020, background): “…allow high schoolers to earn college credits (e.g., Allen & Dadgar, 2012; An, 2013), have implemented or revised statewide merit aid programs (e.g., Cornwell et al., 2006; Dynarski, 2002; Erwin & Binder, 2020; Zhang & Ness, 2010), and considered or enacted free college programs for eligible…”
Why Do College Going Interventions Work (2017, unknown): “7 Financial aid programs such as California’s CalGrant (Kane 2003), Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship (Dynarski 2000, Cornwell, Mustard, and Sridhar 2006), and West Virginia’s PROMISE scholarship ( Scott-Clayton 2011) also have significant impacts on the fraction of high school seniors who attend college.”
Field experiments in labor economics (2010, background): “…natural experiments and field experiments have also find positive and significant effects from conditional cash transfer programs based on enrollment, attendance, and performance (Cornwell et al. 2006, Barrera-Osorio et al. 2008, Angrist and Lavy 2009, Maxfield et al. 2003, Kremer et al. 2009).”
Does State Merit-Based Aid Stem Brain Drain? (2010, methodology): “As a result, regional compacts are commonly used as comparison groups in recent empirical studies on merit-based aid programs (Cornwell et al., 2006; Dynarski, 2004).”
Incentives and Services for College Achievement: Evidence from a Randomized Trial (2007, unknown): “(8)Dynarski (2005) and Cornwell et al. (2006) estimate that the vast majority of Georgia HOPE scholarships would have maintained the first-year target GPA of 2.”