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Title: HIGHER EDUCATION, MERIT-BASED SCHOLARSHIPS AND POST-BACCALAUREATE MIGRATION
Citation Type: Working Paper
Publication Year: 2012
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Abstract: Many merit-based scholarships for college are administered at the state level, targeted to in-state residents and require attendance at an in-state institution. Though these subsidies have the potential to affect lifetime education and migration decisions, much of the literature to date has focused on just one or two outcomes (e.g. college attendance and completion) and one or two states (e.g. Georgia). Given that one of the stated goals of these programs is to increase the quality of a state's workforce, understanding the long-term effects of merit-based scholarships on mobility is crucial for evaluating their effectiveness. In this paper, we utilize the broader expansion and long history of these programs to build a comprehensive picture of how merit aid scholarship availability affects residential migration and educational attainment. To do this, we incorporate data on the introduction of broad-based merit aid programs for Ì‹fifteen states and Census data on all 24 to 32 year olds in the U.S. from 1990 to 2010. We use variation in merit aid eligibility across cohorts and within states to identify treatment effects. Eligibility for merit aid programs slightly increases the propensity of state natives to live in-state, while also extending enrollment in-state into the late twenties. These patterns notwithstanding, the magnitude of merit aid effects is of an order of magnitude smaller than the population treated, suggesting that nearly all of the spending on these programs is transferred to individuals who do not alter educational or migration behavior.
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Authors: Fitzpatrick, Maria, D; Jones, Damon
Series Title: NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES
Publication Number: 18530
Institution: NBER
Pages: 40
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Education, Migration and Immigration
Countries: United States