Years of research support the notion that financial aid can influence students' postsecondary
decisions, but questions remain about the best ways to design and implement such …

In this paper we review recent increases in tuition at public institutions and estimate impacts
on enrollment. We use data on all US public 4-year colleges and universities from 1991 to …

To reflect academic challenges and enrollment patterns of today's freshmen, this study
measures the impact of high school preparation, first-year academic performance, multi …

Public Policy and Higher Education provides readers with new ways to analyze complex
state policies and offers the tools to examine how policies affect students' access and …

Objectives. This study assesses whether need‐based grants are equally conducive to the
college persistence of students from various economic strata and the extent to which a …

This paper assesses the effectiveness of financial aid in promoting the persistence of black
and Hispanic students admitted to the most selective colleges and universities in the United …

The author evaluates the extent to which colleges and universities of varying degrees of
selectivity engage in racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic affirmative action for cohorts of …

The majority of studies investigating financial predictors of student success in higher
education focus on liberal art schools and have investigated a limited number of …

In this paper we review recent trends in tuition at public universities and estimate impacts on
enrollment. We use data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System on all …

To what extent does state policy for student financial aid affect the distribution of institutional
aid awarded to students at public institutions? Using data from the National Postsecondary …