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Early Impacts of the FAFSA Requirement in Texas

Sie Won Kim

In 2021−22, Texas implemented a policy requiring all public high school seniors to complete a financial aid application. This paper examines the early impacts of this requirement on Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) completion rates and college enrollment using a difference-in-differences model. First, using a sample of high schools in Texas, I find that the FAFSA requirement increases FAFSA completion rates in public schools by 6.3 percentage points relative to private schools. Second, using a multi-valued discrete treatment, I find positive effects on FAFSA completion rates across all treated schools, ranging from 3.1 to 7 percentage points. Furthermore, this increase in FAFSA completion rates is associated with an increase in college enrollment for schools with lower pre-treatment FAFSA completion rates.

Keywords
Financial aid, FAFSA, Higher education
Education level
Post-secondary education
Topics
Pathways to and Through Postsecondary
Tags
College readiness,
Higher education
Download 01/2025
Document Object Identifier (DOI)
10.26300/nm07-qp45
EdWorkingPaper suggested citation:
Kim, Sie Won. (). Early Impacts of the FAFSA Requirement in Texas. (EdWorkingPaper: -1130). Retrieved from Annenberg Institute at Brown University: https://doi.org/10.26300/nm07-qp45

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