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Early commitment on financial aid and college decision making of poor students: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural China |
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| Authors: | Chengfang Liu Linxiu ZhangRenfu Luo Xiaobing WangScott Rozelle Brian SharbonoJennifer Adams Yaojiang ShiAi Yue Hongbin LiThomas Glauben |
| Institution: | a Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China b Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, United States c Xibei University, PR China d Tsinghua University, PR China e Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe, Germany |
| Abstract: | Many educational systems have struggled with the question about how best to give out financial aid. In particular, if students do not know the amount of financial aid that they can receive before they make a decision about where to go to college and what major to study, it may distort their decision. This study utilizes an experiment (implemented by the authors as a Randomized Control Trial) to analyze whether or not an alternative way of providing financial aid—by providing an early commitment on financial aid during the student's senior year of high school instead of after entering college—affects the college decision making of poor students in rural China. We find that if early commitments are made early enough; and they are large enough, students will make less distorting college decisions. |
| Keywords: | I20 O12 |
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