scholarly journals Evaluating the Impact of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Kane
Keyword(s):  
Tuition Assistance ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals Money for Nothing? The Impact of Changes in the Pell Grant Program on Institutional Revenues and the Placement of Needy Students

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley R. Curs ◽  
Larry D. Singell ◽  
Glen R. Waddell
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Institutional Quality ◽  
Elastic Response ◽  
Pell Grant ◽  
Federal Aid ◽  
Institutional Level ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Level Data ◽  
Institutional Selectivity ◽  
The Impact

Using new institutional-level data, we assess the impact of changing federal aid levels on institutional-level Pell revenues. Using various policy instruments associated with Pell generosity, we quantify the sensitivity of institutional Pell revenues to the generosity of the Pell Grant program. In general, we find an elastic response of institutional Pell revenues with respect to the maximum Pell award, where other policy instruments associated with Pell generosity are found to have an inelastic or zero impact. We also document significant asymmetries across institutional selectivity, both in magnitude and in terms of which channel accounts for the measured sensitivity—award values directly or institutional enrollment. In the end, exogenous changes in the federal Pell Grant program are found to correlate strongly with changes in the distribution of needy students and revenues across institutional quality.

Saving Soviet Science: The Impact of Grants When Government R&D Funding Disappears

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Ganguli
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Soviet Science ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Marginal Returns ◽  
The Impact

I estimate the impact of a historic grant program, funded by George Soros, that provided grants to over 28,000 Soviet scientists shortly after the end of the USSR. Exploiting a discontinuity in the grant eligibility formula, I show that the grants more than doubled publications on the margin, significantly induced scientists to remain in the science sector, and had long-lasting impacts. While existing evidence shows negligible impacts of scientific grants, I show that funding for science can have high marginal returns when funding levels are low relative to the stock of human capital. (JEL H54, H81, I23, J44, O32, O38, P35)

SUMMER TRAINING CAMPS AS A FORM OF SKI JUMPING TRAINING

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-32
Author(s):  
Tatyana Fendel ◽  
Dmitry Zubkov
Keyword(s):  
Leisure Activities ◽  
Training System ◽  
Sports Training ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Winter Sports ◽  
Ski Jumping ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Coach Training

The research purpose is to theoretically substantiate, develop, experimentally test and measure the impact of summer training camps with simultaneous advanced coach training. The research methodology and organization. The research subject was summer training camps with simultaneous advanced coach training, in the framework of the grant program of the Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation. The program title is ‘Fly to your Dream!’ Sports-educational cluster - the innovative form of the sports training system enhancement’. The training camp program included ski jumping training, advanced coach training, medical and pedagogical observations, as well as educational and leisure activities for the athletes attending the ‘Snezhinka’ [‘Snowflake’] Federal Winter Sports Training Center based at Tchaikovsky State Physical Education Institute. The research results. Over 4.5 million viewers watched a series of «Fly to your Dream» education videos. 65 coaches attended a series of online training seminars in the framework of advanced training courses. 84 flying skiers aged under 14 years took part in the first International ‘Fly to your dream!’ online festival. The overwhelming majority of the surveyed project participants noted the importance of such activity as a tool for popularization and promotion of ski jumping and biathlon skiing (265 people), and as a form of training process (213 people). Сonclusion. The authors conclude that the format suggested for the training process can be recommended for biathlon skiers and other athletes.

Reducing Local Capacity Bias in Government Grantsmanship

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 174-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Sprague ◽  
Kate F. Wilson ◽  
Bruce E. Cain
Keyword(s):  
Local Governments ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Grant Application ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Grant Programs ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
Local Capacity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Minimal Research ◽  
Regional Water

Local governments with more fiscal and administrative resources are at an advantage for obtaining numerous intergovernmental grants. Although many studies have examined the impact of this local capacity bias on grant getting, there has been minimal research on how grant programs could reduce it. We evaluate the effectiveness of two actions that federal and state grant programs have taken to decrease local capacity bias for economically disadvantaged communities, providing matching fund waivers and preferential scoring. By analyzing grant application, evaluation, and award data for California’s Integrated Regional Water Management Program, we find that matching fund waivers were used by many disadvantaged communities in the grant program. However, awarding extra points to projects that would benefit disadvantaged communities appeared to have no impact on funding decisions due to the extra points being small in number and widely distributed. We discuss how the provisions’ design affects their efficacy and how generalizable the findings are to other grant programs. Overall, our study provides support for having grant programs include matching fund waivers and carefully designed scoring preferences to help reduce local capacity bias in grantsmanship.

scholarly journals The Impact of Grants on Homeowner Decisions to Retrofit to Reduce Hurricane-Induced Wind and Flood Damage

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Chiew ◽  
Rachel A. Davidson ◽  
Joseph E. Trainor ◽  
Linda K. Nozick ◽  
Jamie L. Kruse
Keyword(s):  
Stated Preference ◽  
Mixed Logit ◽  
Revealed Preference ◽  
Flood Damage ◽  
Substantial Impact ◽  
Grant Program ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Dollar Amount ◽  
The Impact

AbstractAn increasing number of national, state, and local programs have offered grants or other monetary incentives to encourage homeowners to retrofit their homes to reduce damage from natural hazard events. Despite this fact, little is known about how these offerings influence a homeowner’s decision to carry out such structural retrofits. This paper studies the impact that different grant program designs in particular have on the decision to undertake different types of retrofits to mitigate against hurricane damage. Using data from a survey of homeowners in the eastern half of North Carolina, we implement a mixed logit model that allows for the combination of both revealed-preference and stated-preference data available from the survey. Our findings show that offering a grant results in households being, on average, 3 times as likely to retrofit as when a grant is not offered. In addition, both the percentage of retrofit cost and the maximum dollar amount covered by the grant have a substantial impact on the probability that households choose to retrofit. Living closer to the coastline also has a significant impact on the probability that households will choose to retrofit. Counter to some previous research, we find that households who have experienced two or more hurricanes are less likely to choose to retrofit their homes. From our research, we find that the percentage of retrofit cost covered by the grant and the total cost are both important factors when deciding on the best grant program configuration.

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