between advantaged and disadvantaged students. In contrast to other systems with high tuition fees, the English system is … distinct in that its income-contingent loan system keeps university free at the point of entry, and provides students with …

faculty and applications from students for fellowships and scholarships. By the 1960s the tables had begun to turn and …

admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high … an interest in their graduates being successful, but little interest in where students come from or where they go after … states in fact gain financially when public universities admit additional out-of-state students. This is because attending a …

proposed to prevent such shortages is increased federal support for graduate students. Lost in the policy debate, however, has …-producing universities do respond to changes in external support for graduate students by altering the number of students they support on … responses are quite small. On average, an increase of 100 in the number of students supported by external funds is estimated to …

The pool of students in the global economy prepared for higher education and able to pay tuition at U.S. colleges and … students from China. Given the concentration of high quality colleges and universities in the U.S., there has been a … substantial increase in the demand for enrollment among students from abroad. At the same time, substantial declines in state …

and scholars that the declines in state support have reduced the return to education investment for public sector students … four-year students, and we analyze individuals into their mid-30s. For four-year students, we find that state appropriation … adverse debt outcomes, and these students experience substantial increases in their credit score and in the affluence of the …

particular, we use data on individual students' grades, SAT scores, and the SAT scores of their roommates at three schools to … three schools used, students in the middle of the SAT distribution do somewhat worse in terms of grades if they share a room … with a student who is in the bottom 15 percent of the SAT distribution. Students in the top of the SAT distribution appear …