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Federal Work-Study (FWS) is a distinctive type of financial aid, originally intended to both reduce financial constraints and improve access to career-relevant job opportunities. Prior research on FWS has primarily focused on post-enrollment, post-program-participation outcomes, leaving potential upstream margins of impact unexplored.
Using a unique administrative data source tracking FWS offers, enrollment, and participation from the date of financial aid application, this working paper from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University studies the causal impacts of receiving an FWS offer at a large public college system including both two- and four-year campuses.