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Lifelong student and athlete. Economist @Amazon. Using causal inference and behavioral science to study economic decisions. Opinions mine.
May 23, 2019 10 tweets 3 min read
🚨 New working paper on financial aid for college! 🚨

Link:
rand.org/pubs/working_p…

A quick summary in this #thread... This paper looks at two-year college students who have the greatest financial need, and finds that a grant of around $1,000 increased rates of degree completion over the following three years by about 1-2 percentage points, from a baseline of 19% completion.