TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Zhang,Liang
AU  - Levin,Jared
TI  - Crafting A Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 11437
PY  - 2005
Y2  - June 2005
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11437
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w11437.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu

Liang Zhang

Jared Levin
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2005-06-27
AB  - 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.
ER  -