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Increasing student access through aid: Differences in difference-in-differences estimates

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  • Cook, Nikolai

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Causal identification of a student aid program’s impact can be difficult as the best control group is often a small number of out-of-province students who likely differ from locals in unobservable ways. This paper evaluates the impacts of the 30% Off Ontario Tuition Grant using administrative data from the Ontario–Quebec border, where a large number of local students are subject to a different province’s unchanged aid program. The Grant improved access to education; cohorts enrolled after the Grant was announced come from poorer areas, but also achieved lower graduation rates than comparable local yet out-of-province students. I present estimates using three different control groups: a local-student comparison offers the largest results, with more traditional comparisons finding similar but smaller effects.

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  • Cook, Nikolai, 2024. "Increasing student access through aid: Differences in difference-in-differences estimates," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 238(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:238:y:2024:i:c:s0165176524001940
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111711
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    Keywords

    Ontario Tuition Grant; Education economics; Difference-in-differences; Graduation rate;
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    JEL classification:

    • H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid

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