Acton, Riley K.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Miller, Lois; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
-ethnicity and socioeconomic status. We find that students are sensitive to the distance they must travel to access public colleges … and universities, but there are heterogeneous effects across students - particularly with regard to distance to public two …-year colleges (i.e., community colleges). White, Asian, and higher-income students who live in a community college desert (i.e., at …