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Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field
Stange, Kevin M. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
In the face of declining state support, many universities have introduced differential pricing by undergraduate program as an alternative to across-the-board tuition increases. This practice aligns price more closely with instructional costs and students' ability to pay post-graduation....
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Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges
Goldin, Claudia; Cellini, Stephanie Riegg - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use administrative data from five states to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the size of the for-profit higher education sector in the U.S. Our estimates include schools that are not currently eligible to participate in federal student aid programs under Title IV of the Higher...
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Cost Should Be No Barrier: An Evaluation of the First Year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative
Avery, Christopher N.; Hoxby, Caroline; Jackson, Clement; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
This paper evaluates the first year of Harvard's Financial Aid Initiative, which increased aid and recruiting for students from low income backgrounds. Using rich data from the Census and administrative sources, we estimate family incomes for the vast major of plausible applicants from the U.S....
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Suburbanization, Demographic Change and the Consequences for School Finance
Figlio, David; Fletcher, Deborah - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
The existing literature on the relationship between the share of elderly in a community and the support for local public education has led to mixed results to date. One potential reason behind this is that the share of elderly in a community is endogenous, and it is very difficult to disentangle...
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Simplifying Tax Incentives and Aid for College: Progress and Prospects
Dynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith; Wiederspan, Mark - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
. Research suggests that complexity in the aid process undermines its effectiveness in inducing more students into college. In …, reducing the number of questions from 127 to 116. Funding for college has also been complicated by the growth of a parallel … system for aid: the tax system. A massive expansion in federal tax incentives for college, in particular the American …
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Donating the Voucher: An Alternative Tax Treatment of Private School Enrollment
Samwick, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
Approximately 10 percent of school-age children in the United States are enrolled in private schools, relieving the financial burden on public school systems, and the taxpayers who support them, of the cost of their education. At present, the tax code does not allow families who provide this...
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Should Student Employment Be Subsidized? Conditional Counterfactuals and the Outcomes of Work-Study Participation
Scott-Clayton, Judith; Minaya, Veronica - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Student employment subsidies are one of the largest types of federal employment subsidies, and one of the oldest forms of student aid. Yet it is unclear whether they help or harm students' long term outcomes. We present a framework that decomposes overall effects into a weighted average of...
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How Much Are Public School Teachers Willing to Pay for Their Retirement Benefits?
Fitzpatrick, Maria Donovan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Public sector employees receive large fractions of their lifetime income in the form of deferred compensation. The introduction of the opportunity provided to Illinois public school employees to purchase additional pension benefits allows me to estimate employees' willingness-to-pay for benefits...
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Liberty for More: Finance and Educational Opportunities
Levine, Ross; Rubinstein, Yona - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Banking reforms--that reduced interest rates--boosted college enrollment rates among able students from middle class … credit conditions, the ability of an individual to benefit from college, and a family's financial and educational … circumstances combine to shape college decisions. The functioning of the financial system plays a powerful role in shaping the …
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Financial Aid Policy: Lessons from Research
Dynarski, Susan; Scott-Clayton, Judith - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
scale, expanded in scope, and multiplied in form. As a result, financial aid has become the norm among college enrollees … costs can improve college access and completion, but this general rule is not without exception. For example, the complexity … enroll, grants that link financial aid to academic achievement appear to boost college outcomes more than do grants with no …
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