Re(de)fining College Access and Its Association With Divergent Forms of Financial Aid: A Proposed Conceptual and Analytic Framework

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This manuscript proposes a conceptual framework to reconceptualize college access at the state level, while accounting for the heterogeneous impact different forms of financial aid have on access across sectors and levels. The use of this framework may strengthen our understanding of the relationship between aid and access by accounting for more than one form of financial aid, considering recent and nonrecent high school graduates (NRHGs) and modeling the potential impact of aid on access across sectors.

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college access financial aid heterogeneous effects big and geocoded data spatial analysis data mining critical analysis data analytics data science education finance

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