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Does financial aid help poor students succeed in college?

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  • Wang, Xiaobing
  • Liu, Chengfang
  • Zhang, Linxiu
  • Yue, Ai
  • Shi, Yaojiang
  • Chu, James
  • Rozelle, Scott

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The rapid expansion of enrollment capacity in China's colleges since the late 1990s has come at the price of high tuition hikes. China's government has put forth financial aid programs to enable poor students to access higher education. Although studies have shown that poor high school students are indeed able to attend college when their test scores are high enough (that is, few are unable to attend when they are qualified to attend), the literature has not explored whether poor students have sufficient amounts of aid to thrive in college.

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  • Wang, Xiaobing & Liu, Chengfang & Zhang, Linxiu & Yue, Ai & Shi, Yaojiang & Chu, James & Rozelle, Scott, 2013. "Does financial aid help poor students succeed in college?," China Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 25(C), pages 27-43.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:chieco:v:25:y:2013:i:c:p:27-43
    DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2013.01.003
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    Keywords

    College; Financial aid; Stress; Self-esteem; Randomized controlled trial; China;
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    JEL classification:

    • A22 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics - - - Undergraduate
    • C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
    • I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
    • I28 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Government Policy

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