Reducing Income Inequality in Educational Attainment: Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Financial Aid on College Completion1

By Sara Goldrick-Rab, Robert Kelchen, Douglas N. Harris, James Benson. American Journal of Sociology, 2016

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What works to reduce inequalities in higher education? A systematic review of the (quasi-)experimental literature on outreach and financial aid (2019, background): “The Wisconsin Scholars Grant was also found to largely increase on‐ time bachelor’s graduation (Goldrick‐Rab et al., 2016) but not completion of associate degrees (Anderson & Goldrick‐Rab, 2016).”
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Closing the Gap: The Effect of a Targeted, Tuition-Free Promise on College Choices of High-Achieving, Low-Income Students (2018, background): “In previous interventions, mailings sent in plain envelopes from an unrecognized source were largely ignored or disregarded as fraudulent (Hoxby and Turner 2013; Goldrick-Rab et al. 2016).”