TY - JOUR
T1 - Targeted scholarship for higher education and academic performance: Evidence from Indonesia
AU - Mulyaningsih, Tri
AU - Dong, Xue (Sarah)
AU - Miranti, Riyana
AU - Daly, Anne
AU - Purwaningsih, Yunastiti
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
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.
U2 - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102510
DO - 10.1016/j.ijedudev.2021.102510
M3 - Article
VL - 88
JO - International Journal of Educational Development
JF - International Journal of Educational Development
SN - 0738-0593
ER -