How You Pay Affects How You Do: Financial Aid Type and Student Performance in College / Peter Cappelli, Shinjae Won.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cappelli, Peter.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Won, Shinjae.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22604.

NBER working paper series no. w22604

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

How You Pay Affects How You Do

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.

Summary:

Students receiving financial aid pay different amounts for equivalent education and do so in different ways: Grants, which do not have to be repaid, loans, which are paid back in the future, and work-study, pay-as-you-go. We examine the effects of need-based aid independent of study ability on student outcomes - grade point average in particular - controlling for student background and attributes they had prior to college. We also analyze grades within colleges. The results suggest that students receiving need-based grants do significantly better in college than those not receiving financial aid while those paying for college with loans perform significantly worse than students receiving other forms of aid.

Notes:

Print version record

September 2016.