Viking Student Grant

Magical medicine in Viking Scandinavia.

BY THE year A.D. 1213 Christianity was victorious across Europe; only a few isolated pockets of paganism in remote districts of Sweden, Finland, and Moslem Spain held out against what must have seemed to be the inevitable influence of the Church. Nordic expansion was in eclipse. The age of the Vikings was at an end. The marauders who had loosed such fury on the continent to the south, had, in t...

Need-Based Aid and Student Outcomes: The Effects of the Ohio College Opportunity Grant

This paper exploits a natural experiment to estimate the effects of need-based aid policies on first year college persistence rates. In Fall 2006, Ohio abruptly adopted a new state financial aid policy which was significantly more generous than the previous plan. Using student-level data and very narrowly defined sets of students, I estimate a difference-indifferences model to identify the prog...

Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment: Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform1

In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of direct costs on college enrollme...

It's Money! Real-World Grant Experience through a Student-Run, Peer-Reviewed Program

Grantsmanship is an integral component of surviving and thriving in academic science, especially in the current funding climate. Therefore, any additional opportunities to write, read, and review grants during graduate school may have lasting benefits on one's career. We present here our experience with a small, student-run grant program at Georgetown University Medical Center. Founded in 2010,...

The first viking mission to Mars.