Robert Kelchen
Seton Hall University
67 Papers
187 Citations
Robert Kelchen is an academic researcher from Seton Hall University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Higher education & Student debt. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 48 publications.
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Papers
Reducing income inequality in educational attainment: : Experimental evidence on the impact of financial aid on college completion
TL;DR: In this paper, a randomized experiment is used to estimate the impact of a private need-based grant program on college persistence and degree completion among students from low-income families attending 13 public universities across Wisconsin.
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Performance-Based Funding in American Higher Education: A Systematic Synthesis of the Intended and Unintended Consequences:
TL;DR: In this article, a systematic synthesis examines the intended and unintended consequences of performance-based funding (PBF) policies in higher education, focusing particularly on evidence that PBF policies may cause unintended consequences.
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Need-Based Financial Aid and College Persistence Experimental Evidence from Wisconsin
TL;DR: This paper examined the impacts of a private need-based college financial aid program distributing grants at random among first-year Pell Grant recipients at thirteen public Wisconsin universities and found that an increase of $1,000 in total financial aid received during a student's first year of college was associated with a 2.8 to 4.1 percent increase in rates of enrollment for the second year.
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Do the Effects of Early Childhood Education Programs Differ by Gender? A Meta-Analysis.
Katherine Magnuson,Robert Kelchen,Greg J. Duncan,Holly S. Schindler,Hilary M. Shager,Hirokazu Yoshikawa +5 more
TL;DR: Significant and roughly equal impacts for boys and girls on cognitive and achievement measures were found, although there were no significant effects for either gender on child behavior and adult outcomes such as employment and educational attainment.
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