标题： 高等教育完成和财政援助援助：来自信息实验的证据 显示英文标题

标题： Tertiary Education Completion and Financial Aid Assistance: Evidence from an Information Experiment

摘要： 理解信息在弱势学生中的作用对于解释他们在高等教育中的投资决策至关重要。 确实，关于完成大学学业的回报和收益的信息障碍可能解释了学生学位完成率变化的很大一部分。 我们在意大利对7806名受益于经济援助的大学生进行了一项实地实验，通过提供信息，要么是关于完成大学教育的劳动力市场回报，要么是关于满足经济援助附带学术要求的教育回报。 我们的结果表明，只有后者的信息处理对学业成绩有积极影响，使获得的学分数量增加了约3个，并将退学的概率降低了约4个百分点。 我们还发现，结果受到我们处理所产生的抱负提升的中介作用。 显示英文摘要

摘要： Understanding the role of information among disadvantaged students is crucial in explaining their investment decisions in higher education. Indeed, information barriers on the returns and the gains from completing college may explain a substantial share of variation in students' degree completion. We conduct a field experiment with 7,806 university students in Italy who benefit from financial aid assistance, by providing information, either on the labor market returns of completing college or on the education returns of meeting the academic requirements attached to the financial aid. Our results suggest that only the latter information treatment has a positive effect on academic performance, increasing the number of credits obtained by around 3, and by decreasing the probability of dropout by around 4 percentage points. We also find that the results are mediated by an aspiration lift generated by our treatment.