• Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship and Grant Program
  • Christopher M. Cornwell & David B. Mustard, and Deepa Sridhar, "The Enrollment Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid: Evidence from Georgia’s HOPE Scholarship,” Journal of Labor Economics 24(4), 2006. http://www.terry.uga.edu/hope/hope.enrollments.pdf
  • Susan Dynarski, “The Consequences of Merit Aid,” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper no. 9400, December 2002.
  • Susan Dynarski, “Building the Stock of College-Educated Labor,” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper no. 11604, September 2005.
• John and Abigail Adams Scholarship Program (State of Massachusetts)
  • “MCAS Scores and the Adams Scholarships: A Policy Failure,” The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University and the Center for the Study of Higher Education at The Pennsylvania State University. http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/news/pressreleases/merit_policy_brief.pdf
• Oklahoma’s Promise – OHLAP
• Michigan Promise Scholarship
• 21st Century Scholars Program (State of Indiana)
  • Edward St. John, et al., “A Step Toward College Success: Assessing Attainment among Indiana’s Twenty-first Century Scholars,” prepared for the Lumina Foundation for Education, August 2005. http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/CollegeSuccess.pdf
• College for Everyone (Greene County, North Carolina)
• DC Tuition Assistance Grant Program (Washington, DC)
  • Thomas J. Kane, “Evaluating the Impact of the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant Program,” National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Working Paper no. 10658, July 2004.
• Legacy Scholars (Battle Creek, Michigan)
• Donald E. Heller, “Merit Aid and College Access,” prepared for the Symposium on the Consequences of Merit-Based Student Aid, University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 2006. http://www.wiscape.wisc.edu/publications/attachments/cf018Heller.pdf
• Donald E. Heller and Patricia Marin, eds., “State Merit Scholarship Programs and Racial Inequality,” The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, 2004. http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/research/meritaid/fullreport04.php