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Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the United States have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps - specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs - as a potential explanation for these...
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shocks to (students') education costs. Further analysis demonstrates that the tuition hike and student debt increase, despite …
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--and potentially more important--all students, even the more highly motivated ones, respond to lower tuition levels by decreasing their …-subsidy, low-tuition policies have both disincentive effects on students' study time and adverse effects on human capital …
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At least a quarter of college students in the United States graduate with more than one undergraduate major. This paper … investigates how students decide on the composition of their paired majors - in other words, whether the majors chosen are … substitutes or complements. Since students use both their preferences and their expectations about major-specific outcomes when …
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, we provide students with information on the true population distribution of these characteristics, and observe how this …
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freshmen students following Georgia’s HOPE scholarship program. How did HOPE affect the selectivity of colleges attended by … Georgia’s freshmen students? Did it induce Georgia’s freshmen students who would have otherwise attended more selective out …
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labor market trajectories. Using an experiment to derive students’ levels of overconfidence, and preferences for …
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Despite a robust college premium, college attendance rates in the United States have remained stagnant and exhibit a substantial socioeconomic gradient. We focus on information gaps — specifically, incomplete information about college benefits and costs — as a potential explanation for these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404579
When students fund their education through loans, changes in student borrowing and tuition are interlinked. Higher … tuition costs raise loan demand, but loan supply also affects equilibrium tuition costs - for example, by relaxing students …
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