PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Denning, Jeffrey T.
TI  - Born Under a Lucky Star: Financial Aid, College Completion, Labor Supply, and Credit Constraints
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.54.3.1116.8359R1
DP  - 2018 Mar 02
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/03/01/jhr.54.3.1116.8359R1.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2018/03/01/jhr.54.3.1116.8359R1.full
AB  - Financial aid can affect both college enrollment and graduation. The effects on graduation can be driven either by students induced to enroll by financial aid, students who would have enrolled anyway but graduate as a result of the financial aid, or both. This paper isolates the effect of financial aid on the second group by examining a change in aid that did not change enrollment. I study a discontinuous change in the amount of aid available to students who meet the age cutoff for financial independence I find that additional aid causes some university seniors to graduate one year earlier.