Informational and behavioral barriers hinder social benefit take-up. We investigate the impact of mitigating these barriers through providing personalized information on benefits application status and application assistance on filing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), the gateway to college financial aid. Through a multidistrict experiment, we assess the impact of this outreach, delivered via text message. This data-driven strategy improves FAFSA completion and college matriculation and potentially reduces the negative consequences of additional procedural hurdles such as FAFSA income verification, required of approximately one third of filers nationally.

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定制化的核对以改善FAFSA的完成和收入验证

信息和行为障碍阻碍了社会福利的获取。我们通过提供有关福利申请状态和申请协助的个性化信息，以减轻联邦政府提供的学生资助申请免费申请联邦学生援助（FAFSA）的影响，从而研究减轻这些障碍的影响。通过多区域实验，我们评估了通过短信传递的这种影响。这种以数据为依据的策略提高了FAFSA的完成率和大学入学率，并潜在地减少了其他程序性障碍（如FAFSA收入核查）的负面影响，这大约占全国申请者的三分之一。