The impact of financial aid on student departure and graduation: propensity score matching

IF 1.1 Q3 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

Quality in Higher Education Pub Date : 2022-06-06 DOI:10.1080/13538322.2022.2054077

Patricia Hernández-Medina, Gabriel Ramírez-Torres

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Abstract

Abstract The purpose of the study was to evaluate the impact of the financial aid programme aimed at discounting tuition fees at one of Venezuela’s first private universities on early and late student departure, both from the degree programme and the institution, as well as on graduation. The propensity score matching was used by calculating the average treatment effect estimator under parametric and non-parametric methodologies such as nearest neighbours, Kernel, or local linear regression. The results indicate that although there is evidence of the programme exerting a positive impact on early student departure to a greater extent (reductions between 8% and 15%), the impact tends to be considerably less when it comes to reducing late student departure (between 1% and 5%), and it had no impact on graduation.

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经济资助对学生离校和毕业的影响:倾向得分匹配

摘要:本研究的目的是评估委内瑞拉第一所私立大学之一的学费折扣经济援助计划对早期和晚期学生离校的影响，包括学位课程和机构，以及毕业。倾向评分匹配是通过计算参数和非参数方法(如最近邻、核或局部线性回归)下的平均治疗效果估计量来使用的。结果表明，尽管有证据表明该计划在更大程度上对早期学生离校产生了积极影响(减少8%至15%)，但在减少晚期学生离校(减少1%至5%)方面，影响往往要小得多，而且对毕业没有影响。

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Quality in Higher Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

CiteScore

3.30

自引率

14.30%

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期刊介绍： Quality in Higher Education is aimed at those interested in the theory, practice and policies relating to the control, management and improvement of quality in higher education. The journal is receptive to critical, phenomenological as well as positivistic studies. The journal would like to publish more studies that use hermeneutic, semiotic, ethnographic or dialectical research as well as the more traditional studies based on quantitative surveys and in-depth interviews and focus groups. Papers that have empirical research content are particularly welcome. The editor especially wishes to encourage papers on: reported research results, especially where these assess the impact of quality assurance systems, procedures and methodologies; theoretical analyses of quality and quality initiatives in higher education; comparative evaluation and international aspects of practice and policy with a view to identifying transportable methods, systems and good practice; quality assurance and standards monitoring of transnational higher education; the nature and impact and student feedback; improvements in learning and teaching that impact on quality and standards; links between quality assurance and employability; evaluations of the impact of quality procedures at national level, backed up by research evidence.