Beyond the enrolment gap: financial barriers and high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education

Kenedi, Gustave ORCID: 0000-0002-3360-536X (2024) Beyond the enrolment gap: financial barriers and high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education. CEP Discussion Papers (CEPDP1987). London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance, London, UK.

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Abstract

Little is known about what influences high-achieving, low-income students' persistence in higher education, despite extensive work on their enrolment decision. This paper investigates the role of credit constraints. Using exhaustive administrative data for France, I estimate the impact of automatically granting generous additional aid to enrolled high-achieving, low-income students. Eligibility is communicated too late to affect initial enrolment, allowing me to recover the pure effect on the intensive margin. I find this aid had precisely estimated null effects on persistence, graduation, and did not induce switches to higher quality degrees. This suggests non-financial factors largely explain these students' observed attrition.

Item Type:	Monograph (Discussion Paper)
Official URL:	https://cep.lse.ac.uk/_new/publications/discussion...
Additional Information:	© 2024 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions
JEL classification:	I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I22 - Educational Finance I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I23 - Higher Education Research Institutions I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I2 - Education > I28 - Government Policy
Date Deposited:	10 Feb 2025 15:48
Last Modified:	29 Sep 2025 23:12
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/126824

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