Testing a Social Innovation in Financial Aid for Low-Income Students: Experimental Evidence from Italy
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Keywords
higher education; social inequality; financial aid; asset building; randomized controlled trial;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C90 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - General
- D04 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Microeconomic Policy: Formulation; Implementation; Evaluation
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- I24 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Education and Inequality
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2018-08-20 (Education)
- NEP-EUR-2018-08-20 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-EXP-2018-08-20 (Experimental Economics)
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