Crafting a class
Subtitle: the trade off between merit scholarships and enrolling lower-income students
By: Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Liang Zhang, Jared Levin.
Contributors: Zhang, Liang.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11437; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11437.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test.; Student aid -- United States.; Federal aid to higher education -- United States.; College students -- United States.; Poor -- United States.
Description: "Our paper uses institutional-level panel data to testwhether an increase in the number of institutionally funded National Merit Scholarship (NMS) winners at an institution isassociated with a reduction in the number of Pell Grant recipients at the institution.  We find that, other factors held constant, an increase in the share of institutionally funded NMS winners in an institution's first-year class is associated with a reduction in the share of Pell Grant recipients among the institution's undergraduate student body and that the magnitude of this relationship is larges at the institutions that enroll the greatest number of NMS students"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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