Merit-Based College Scholarships and Car Sales (C. Cornwell and D. Mustard) [Dec 2006], Education Finance and Policy 2 (2007) 133-151.

]The Enrollment Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid: Evidence from Georgia's HOPE Scholarship (C. Cornwell, D. Mustard and D. Sridhar), Journal of Labor Economics 24 (2006) 761-786.

Student Responses to Merit Scholarship Retention Rules (C. Cornwell, K. Lee and D. Mustard), Journal of Human Resources 40 (2005) 895-917. 

The Effects of State-Sponsored Merit Scholarships on Course Selection and Major Choice in College (C. Cornwell, K. Lee and D. Mustard) under revision

Merit Aid and Sorting: The Effect of HOPE-Style Scholarships on College Stratification by Student Quality (C. Cornwell and D. Mustard) under revision

The Distributional Impacts of Lottery-Funded, Merit-Based College Scholarships: Evidence from Georgia (C. Cornwell and D. Mustard) [Aug 2001]

Policy-oriented Papers & Book Chapters

Evaluating HOPE-Style Merit Scholarships,
(C. Cornwell and D. Mustard) in Innovation in Education,
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Conference Proceedings (2006).

Assessing Public Higher Education in Georgia at the Start of the
21st Century, in What's Happening to Public Higher Education,
edited by Ronald Ehrenberg, GWestport CT: Praeger/American Council Series on Higher Education (2006).

Georgia's HOPE Scholarship and Minority and Low-Income Students: Program Effects and Proposed Reforms, in State Merit Scholarship Programs and Racial Inequality, edited by Donald E. Heller and Patricia Marin, Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University (2004).

Georgia's HOPE Scholarship Program: Enrollment Gains and Lottery Finance, Insights on Southern Poverty vol 1, no 3 (2003).

Race and the Effects of Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship, in Who Should We Help? The Negative Social Consequences of Merit Scholarships, edited by Donald E. Heller and Patricia Marin, Cambridge, MA: The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University (2002).

HOPE, the Brain Drain, and Diversity: The Impact of the Scholarship on High Achievers and African Americans, Policy Notes, vol 3, no 4, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, 2002.

HOPE Affects Where, Not Whether, Students Attend College, Policy Notes, vol 2, no 10, Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia, 2001.

Grants

We are grateful for the support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Terry College of Business through its Terry-Sanford Research Grant Program.

Much of our early research agenda is summarized in our NSF grant proposals:

2000-02 proposal [narrative | summary]
2002-04 proposal [narrative | summary]