Estimating the Effect of Student Aid on College Enrollment : Evidence from a Government Grant Policy Reform
Helena Skyt Nielsen, Torben Sørensen, Christopher R. Taber
In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of direct costs on college enrollment. To allow for heterogeneous responses due to borrowing constraints, we use detailed information on parents' assets. We find that enrollment is less responsive than found in other studies and that the presence of borrowing constraints only deters college enrollment to a minor extent
Year of publication: |
December 2008
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Authors: | Nielsen, Helena Skyt |
Other Persons: | Taber, Christopher R. (contributor) ; Sørensen, Torben (contributor) |
Institutions: | National Bureau of Economic Research (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Subject: | Wirkungsanalyse | Impact assessment | Studienfinanzierung | Higher education finance | Reform | Dänemark | Denmark | Regressionsanalyse | Regression analysis | Bildungsinvestition | Human capital investment |
Saved in:
freely available
Extent: | 1 Online-Ressource |
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Series: | NBER working paper series ; no. w14535 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Mode of access: World Wide Web System requirements: Adobe [Acrobat] Reader required for PDF files Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers. |
Other identifiers: | 10.3386/w14535 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464105