Grants in Italian University: A Look at the Heterogeneity of Their Impact on Students' Performances

Autor/inn/en	Agasisti, Tommaso; Murtinu, Samuele
Titel	Grants in Italian University: A Look at the Heterogeneity of Their Impact on Students' Performances
Quelle	In: Studies in Higher Education, 41 (2016) 6, S.1106-1132 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0307-5079
DOI	10.1080/03075079.2014.966670
Schlagwörter	Grants; Higher Education; Academic Achievement; Foreign Countries; Dropouts; Probability; Student Financial Aid; Graduation; Graduation Rate; Statistical Analysis; Control Groups; Regression (Statistics); Cohort Analysis; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Grant; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Schulleistung; Ausland; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung; Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie; Studienfinanzierung; Studienförderung; Abschluss; Graduierung; Statistische Analyse; Regression; Regressionsanalyse; Kohortenanalyse; Italien
Abstract	In this paper, we estimate the effect of receiving financial aid for a cohort of students who enrolled at Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in the year 2007/2008, through a propensity score matching approach. Using administrative data about these students for four years, the impact of the financial aid on several dimensions of academic performance was evaluated: formative credits obtained after one year, dropout probability in the first and second year, graduation in the legal duration of the course, and graduation after four years. Overall, a positive and statistically significant effect of the grant is found and this finding is stable across several robustness checks. Exploring the heterogeneity of this effect, it is demonstrated that the effect is higher for immigrants, Italians who moved from another region for studying, and students attending an engineering course. Evidence that unobservable factors (such as students' own intrinsic academic motivation) account for an important part of the estimated impact of the financial aid is also found. (As Provided).
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