How Did Colleges Disburse Emergency Aid During Covid-19? An Implementation Analysis of the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund

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ID9730805
AutoresElizabeth Bell (0000-0003-1021-9287, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, autor correspondente), David J Schwegman (0000-0001-8254-7111, American University), David Schwegman (Assistant Professor, American University, Washington, DC), Michael Hand (0000-0002-1643-8213, U.S. General Services Administration, Office of Evaluation Sciences, Washington, DC), Michael S Hand (General Services Administration), Michael DiDomenico (U.S. General Services Administration, Office of Evaluation Sciences, Washington, DC)
Ano2023
Volume52
Fascículo5
Páginas259-271
Data de publicação2023-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEducational Researcher (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-189X • E-ISSN: 1935-102X
EditoraAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/0013189x231161318
PMID38602928
OpenAlexW4327950904
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas24

To address the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress authorized the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund (HEERF I) in March 2020 with over $6 billion allocated for emergency financial aid. In this paper, we utilize the administrative burden framework to analyze HEERF I implementation for a stratified random sample of colleges, focusing on the implications for equity. We find that disbursement policies varied along two dimensions: (1) whether they imposed burdens on students by requiring applications and proof of hardship and (2) whether they targeted needy students and varied the amount of aid according to need. When we examine sectoral differences, we find that private for-profit colleges were more likely to place higher burden on students, whereas public and minority-serving institutions were more likely to reduce burden

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Actuarial science · Business · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Disbursement · Economic growth · Economics · Emergency management · Equity (law · Higher education · Pandemic · Political science · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 · COVID-19 and healthcare impacts · Disaster Management and Resilience · Emergency and Acute Care Studies · Finance · Medicine