TY - JOUR
T1 - Targeted scholarship for higher education and academic performance
T2 - Evidence from Indonesia
AU - Mulyaningsih, Tri
AU - Dong, Sarah
AU - Miranti, Riyana
AU - Daly, Anne
AU - Purwaningsih, Yunastiti
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Research Fund PNBP of the Universitas Sebelas Maret Indonesia ID 00130659041642019 under the scheme of International Research Collaboration 2018-2019. The funding source had no such involvement in the research process and manuscript writing.
Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Research Fund of the Universitas Sebelas Maret under the scheme of International Research Collaboration of 2018–2019. We were grateful for valuable feedbacks from participants of NATSEM/ IGPA Indonesia Program Seminar at the University of Canberra on 14 May 2019; Arndt-Corden Department of Economics (ACDE) Seminar, Australian National University on 11 June 2019; Indonesian Regional Science Association Conference in Universitas Syiah Kuala Aceh on 22 July 2019 and Seminar of Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS) in Singapore on 26 July 2019.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/1
Y1 - 2022/1
N2 - This paper studies the effect of a large-scale scholarship introduced by the Indonesian government in 2010 that provides generous financial assistance for poor students. By using administrative data from a large public university in Indonesia, this study estimates the likely effect of the scholarship on student academic performance during university. Using matching methods of coarsened exact matching (CEM) that take into account the selection criteria used for scholarship allocation, we find that the scholarship is positively associated with student performance in terms of GPA. Furthermore, we find that these positive associations are strongest for the least advantaged group in terms of family income.
AB - This paper studies the effect of a large-scale scholarship introduced by the Indonesian government in 2010 that provides generous financial assistance for poor students. By using administrative data from a large public university in Indonesia, this study estimates the likely effect of the scholarship on student academic performance during university. Using matching methods of coarsened exact matching (CEM) that take into account the selection criteria used for scholarship allocation, we find that the scholarship is positively associated with student performance in terms of GPA. Furthermore, we find that these positive associations are strongest for the least advantaged group in terms of family income.
KW - Student financial aid
KW - Higher education
KW - Scholarships
KW - Academic performance
KW - Inequality
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102510
DO - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102510
M3 - Article
SN - 1873-4871
VL - 88
SP - 1
EP - 11
JO - International Journal of Educational Development
JF - International Journal of Educational Development
M1 - 102510
ER -
