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Pell Grant eligibility

A simple program to calculate Pell Grant eligibility in Stata, if you have data with the EFC. Documentation is in the ado file: pellgrant.ado

Source files from Federal Student Aid (FSA). Pell Grant award schedules by aid year: 2008, 2009201020112012201320142015201620172018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. This simple do-file graphs the schedules together: pellexample.do. And it looks like this (see below).

pellschedules.png