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<p>Alex Tabarrok <a href="http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/02/the_trouble_wit.html" title="Is HOPE a virtue?">notes recent research</a> suggesting that Georgia&rsquo;s expensive <span class="caps">HOPE</span> scholarship program has done little to improve access for disadvantaged students to the state&rsquo;s higher ed system, at the expense of producing rampant high school <a href="http://blog.lordsutch.com/?entryid=2406">grade inflation</a> and encouraging students to avoid challenging courses in college so they can keep their scholarships.</p> <p>The best that can be said for the program is that it keeps talented students in-state, which may reduce the mobility of smart people away from Georgia; whether that&rsquo;s sufficient to justify a massive middle class entitlement program (financed off the stupidity of the poor, in the form of lottery ticket sales) I leave as an exercise for the reader.</p> http://blog.lordsutch.com/archives/2457 http://blog.lordsutch.com/atom.cgi/entryid=2457