How Financial Aid Affects Persistence

By Eric Bettinger. 2004

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Challenges and Opportunities for Improving Community College Student Success (2010, background): “For example, receiving a Pell Grant appears to decrease the probability of withdrawal among students during their first 2 years of college (Bettinger, 2004).”
Into College, out of Poverty? Policies to Increase the Postsecondary Attainment of the Poor. NBER Working Paper No. 15387. (2009, methodology): “Bettinger (2004) uses a regression-discontinuity approach to look at the effect of the Pell Grant on persistence using a sample of college students; his estimates are extremely sensitive to specification.”
Credit Access and College Enrollment (2017, background): “(4): Only for students in the top 5% of their graduating high school.”
The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics (2006, background): “Bettinger (2004) ﬁ nds suggestive evidence that Pell Grant size affects college completion, but notes his results are very sensitive. aid system?”
Competing Explanations of Undergraduate Noncompletion (2011, background): “Bettinger (2004) found that Pell grants increase first-year retention.”
From Theory to Action: Exploring the Institutional Conditions for Student Retention (2010, background): “For low-income students in particular, lower levels of aid are associated with attendance at 2-year institutions that is, in turn, associated with lower levels of retention and eventual completion (Bettinger, 2004).”
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “67Bettinger et al. (2019) argue that other channels such as graduate school attendance may help explain these earnings gains, while Denning et al.”
What works to reduce inequalities in higher education? A systematic review of the (quasi-)experimental literature on outreach and financial aid (2019, background): “ In recent years, the literature has increasingly recognized that getting more youth into higher education is insufficient and that interventions should also ensure that they ultimately graduate (Bettinger, 2004; Castleman & Long, 2013).”
Comparing the Determinants of Persistence for First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students (2005, background): “In this study, grant aid was unrelated to the persistence of CGS, but grant aid had a significant positive effect on the persistence decisions of FGS (Bettinger, 2004; Paulsen & St. John, 2002).”
Behavioral Economics of Education: Progress and Possibilities (2015, unknown): “98 Avery and Hoxby, 2004; Bettinger, 2004; Stinebrickner and Stinebrickner, 2003.”
Looking beyond Enrollment: The Causal Effect of Need-Based Grants on College Access, Persistence, and Graduation (2016, background): “One exception, Bettinger (2004), exploited variation in the size of students’ Pell Grant awards, based on changes in the eligibility formula over time and differences in family size, to investigate the effect of increases in Pell Grant eligibility on whether students stopped out of college.”
Causal Inference and Omitted Variable Bias in Financial Aid Research: Assessing Solutions (2008, methodology): “Kane (2003), Van der Klaauw (2002), and Bettinger (2004) all draw on this strategy to identify the effects of financial aid policies. To take an example from Kane (2003), California’s CalGrant financial aid program used a GPA cutoff of 3.”
Improving College Access in the United States: Barriers and Policy Responses (2015, unknown): “But Seftor and Turner (2002) find positive impacts of expansions in eligibility for adult students, and Bettinger (2004) finds some evidence of positive effects of larger Pell grants on persistence for students who are already enrolled.”
Aid for all: College coaching, financial aid, and post-secondary persistence in Tennessee (2016, background): “…complex eligibility criteria can hinder the very students these programs are intended to benefit (Dynarski et al., 2013), and aid programs that are conditioned on completing the FAFSA are not always successful at increasing students’ access to college (Bettinger, 2004; Bruce & Carruthers, 2014).”
Student aid and its role in encouraging persistence (2009, background): “Some studies (Bettinger, 2004; Kaltenbaugh et al., 1999; St. John et al., 2005) look at the effects of financial aid across institutional types; however, we think this is risky.”