Author(s)

Yuanyuan Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Nanchang Normal University, Nanchang, 330032, China

Corresponding Author

Yuanyuan Zhang

ABSTRACT

Targeted financial aid is an extension of the precision poverty alleviation concept in the field of education, serving as an essential guiding principle for university student financial aid and a significant measure to achieve educational equity. Using panel data of economically disadvantaged students from a certain normal university for the years 2018 to 2023 as the research sample, applying the double-difference model, and adopting the research perspective of targeted financial aid, this study systematically evaluates the actual effects of financial aid policies in normal universities. The research findings are as follows: (1) In the aid year (2021) and one year after receiving aid (2022), there are differences in students' comprehensive abilities, with higher-grade students showing greater improvement than lower-grade students. (2) In the aid year, higher-grade students exhibit greater improvement in student work capability than lower-grade students, but their improvement in practical innovation ability is less than that of lower-grade students. However, one year after receiving aid, both lower-grade and higher-grade students show improvement in practical innovation ability. Based on the research results, recommendations are proposed to enhance a diversified multi-subject governance mechanism for targeted financial aid, establish technical support mechanisms for targeted financial aid and educational support, promote a combination of implicit and compensated aid approaches, and improve the assessment and supervision mechanism for precise student financial aid.

KEYWORDS

Targeted Financial Aid, Normal Universities, Financial Aid for Education, Effects

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuanyuan Zhang, Empirical Study on the Educational Effect of Targeted Financial Aid in Normal Universities—Examination Based on the Double-Difference Model. Transactions on Comparative Education (2023) Vol. 5: 121-128. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2023.050818.

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