Browsing by Author "Gurantz, Oded"

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    How has COVID-19 impacted FAFSA submissions?
    Gurantz, Oded; Wielga, Christopher (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-07-01)
    COVID has led colleges to brace for potential enrollment declines in the Fall, which would devastate budgets and potentially decrease the likelihood a student ever earns a degree. We take an early look at California’s FAFSA applications up through mid-June, to anticipate how students may be responding to this crisis. We find that COVID did not affect most of California’s “traditional” high school graduates due to an early deadline for financial aid, which exists in a number of states. From early March to mid-June, FAFSA applications among freshmen declined 18%, relative to prior years. Although there were initial declines in applications among more experienced students, these quickly rebounded and are now 9% higher relative to prior years. The largest FAFSA increases occurred in counties that saw the most dramatic increases in Unemployment Insurance claims.
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    Impacts of State Aid For Non-Traditional Students
    Gurantz, Oded (Center for Education Policy Analysis (CEPA), 2018-09-01)
    Do tuition vouchers and cash subsidies promote educational or labor force outcomes for “non-traditional” students? The author uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of a state aid program with an unobserved eligibility cutoff. Eligibility has no impact on degree completion for students with a preference for community colleges or four-year colleges but increases bachelor’s degrees for students interested in for-profit colleges by four percentage points. The author finds no impact on employment or earnings for all applicants. This research highlights challenges in promoting human capital investment for adults.
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    Impacts of State Aid for Non-Traditional Students
    Gurantz, Oded (Center for Education Policy Analysis, 2019-08-01)
    Do tuition vouchers and cash subsidies promote educational or labor force outcomes for “non-traditional” students? The author uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of a state aid program with an unobserved eligibility cutoff. Eligibility has no impact on degree completion for students with a preference for community colleges or four-year colleges but increases bachelor’s degrees for students interested in large, for profit colleges by four percentage points. He also finds no impact on in-state employment or earnings for all applicants. This research highlights challenges in promoting human capital investment for adults.
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    Impacts of State Aid for Non-Traditional Students on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes
    Gurantz, Oded (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2019-11-01)
    Up to three-fourths of college students can be classified as “non-traditional”, yet whether typical policy interventions improves their education and labor market outcomes is understudied. The author uses a regression discontinuity design to estimate the impacts of a state financial aid program aimed towards non-traditional students. Eligibility has no impacts on degree completion for students intending to enroll in community colleges or four-year colleges but increases bachelor’s degrees for students interested in large, for-profit colleges by four percentage points. The author finds no impacts on employment or earnings for all applicants. This research highlights challenges in promoting human capital investment for adults.
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    Realizing Your College Potential? Impacts of College Board’s RYCP Campaign on Postsecondary Enrollment
    Gurantz, Oded; Howell, Jessica; Hurwitz, Michael; Larson, Cassandra; Pender, Matea; White, Brooke (Annenberg Institute at Brown University, 2020-05-01)
    The College Board sought to reduce barriers in the college application process by minimizing information aggregation costs, encouraging a broad application portfolio, and providing an impetus to start the search process. Some students were offered additional encouragements, such as text message reminders or college application fee waivers. In a randomized control trial with 785,000 low- and middle-income students in the top 50% of the PSAT and SAT distributions, the authors find no changes in college enrollment patterns, with the exception of a 0.02σ increase in college quality measures for African-American and Hispanic students.