Arbeitspapier

The Effect of Grants on University Drop-Out Rates: Evidence on the Italian Case

In this paper we evaluate the impact of need-based grants on university drop-out rates in the first year of enrollment, using student-level administrative data from all Italian universities in the period 2003-2013. We exploit the fact that not all eligible students receive financial aid due to limited resources to generate a treatment and a control group. Using this partition, we estimate the average treatment effect, i.e. the average effect on low income students, controlling for a set of observable characteristics by running regressions on blocks defined on the propensity score. Results point towards a sizeable effect of grants in reducing dropping out from higher education: around one third of these students would have left university in the first year in absence of the grants. This evidence is robust to a variety of specifications and sample selection criteria.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 12886

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Higher Education; Research Institutions
Single Equation Models; Single Variables: Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models; Quantile Regressions
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Discrete Regression and Qualitative Choice Models; Discrete Regressors; Proportions
Thema
human capital
higher education
university dropout
student financial aid
blocking with regression adjustment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Modena, Francesca
Rettore, Enrico
Tanzi, Giulia
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2020

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Modena, Francesca
  • Rettore, Enrico
  • Tanzi, Giulia
  • Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2020

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