Financial aid: A blunt instrument for increasing degree attainment

Getting to Graduation: The Completion Agenda in Higher Education

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 157-174

  Bettinger, Eric ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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