Lindsay Page

In many observational research settings in education, the treatment is allocated to entire clusters of students, instead of to individual students. These clustered observational studies (COSs) arise when the treatment is applied at the group level (e.g., teachers, classes, or schools) with outcomes of interest measured at the student level. The intervention is not randomized, but it is clustered such that all students within a given cluster are treatment or control students. There is very li...

In this project, researchers investigate whether an intervention that provides financial aid information, reminders, and advising to college students increases completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and compliance with the Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) requirements of the Pell grant program. The research team will convey information, reminders, and offers of additional assistance to students via text message. The intervention is expected to work by making s...