2014 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award

The Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award celebrates the scholarly papers presented at the AIR annual conference (Forum) that best exemplify the standards of excellence established by the award's namesake and that make significant contributions to the field of IR. The purpose of the award is to promote scholarship and to acknowledge that AIR members make a wide variety of scholarly contributions to the field, ranging from theory to practice. 2014 Association for Institutional Research Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award. Awarded for: Delaney, J. A. & Kearney, T. D. (2015). Guaranteed tuition policies and state general appropriations for higher education: A difference-in-difference analysis. Journal of Education Finance 40(4), 359-390.