Evaluating Econometric Evaluations of Post-Secondary Aid

In an ongoing evaluation of post-secondary financial aid, we use random assignment to assess the causal effects of large privately-funded aid awards. Here, we compare the unbiased causal effect estimates from our RCT with two types of non-experimental econometric estimates. The first applies a selec...

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Main Authors: Pallais, Amanda (Author), Angrist, Joshua (Contributor), Autor, David H (Contributor), Hudson, Sally Lindquist (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2017-05-12T14:31:33Z.
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