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Ranking up by moving out : the effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values

Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - 2010

Texas engaged in a large-scale policy experiment when it instituted the Top 10% Plan. This policy guarantees automatic …

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Ranking up by moving out : the effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on property values

Cortes, Kalena E.; Friedson, Andrew I. - In: National tax journal 67 (2014) 1, pp. 51-76

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The effects of state merit aid programs on attendance at elite colleges

Sjoquist, David L.; Winters, John V. - 2015

State merit aid programs have been found to reduce the likelihood that students attend college out-of-state. Using the U.S. News & World Report rankings of colleges and universities to measure college quality and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System data to measure enrollment, we...

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Uniform admissions, unequal access : did the top 10% plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?

Klasik, Daniel; Cortes, Kalena E. - In: Economics of education review 87 (2022), pp. 1-25

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Uniform admissions, unequal access: did the Top 10% Plan increase access to selective flagship institutions?

Cortes, Kalena E.; Klasik, Daniel - 2020

The Top 10% Plan admissions policy has now been in place in Texas for over two decades. We analyze 18 years of post …-Top 10% Plan data to look for evidence of increased access to the selective Texas flagship campuses among all Texas high … schools. We provide a detailed description of changes in enrollment patterns at the flagship campuses from Texas high schools …

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Weakly progressive : disproportionate higher education attendance and the structure of income taxes

Gubello, Michele; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2022

This paper studies the effect of income tax progressivity on the disproportionate usage of publicly funded higher education. We develop a rational choice model showing that more progressive tax systems increase poorer households' net fiscal benefit, making their children more likely to attend...

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Interjurisdictional Competition for Higher Education and Firms

Gerard, Marcel; Ruiz, Fernando - 2021

In this paper we consider two regions competing for the larger part of the investment by a mobile firm whose decision is based on the quality of human capital in each region. This in turn depends on the initial skill level and the amount of higher education in the region, with a possible...

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The Effect of Preferential Admissions on the College Participation of Disadvantaged Students : The Role of Pre-College Choices

Tincani, Michela Maria; Kosse, Fabian; Miglino, Enrico - 2022

Exploiting the randomized expansion of preferential college admissions in Chile, we show they increased admission and enrollment of disadvantaged students by 32%. But the intended beneficiaries were nearly three times as many, and of higher average ability, than those induced to be admitted. The...

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Bridging the gap : mismatch effects and catch-up dynamics under a Brazilian college affirmative action program

Oliveira, Rodrigo Carvalho; Santos, Alei; Severnini, … - In: Economics of education review 98 (2024), pp. 1-17

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Shaping Inequality and Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty : Free College or Better Schools

Krueger, Dirk; Ludwig, Alexander; Popova, Irina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We evaluate the aggregate, distributional and welfare consequences of alternative government education policies to encourage college completion, such as making college free and improving funding for public schooling. To do so, we construct a general equilibrium overlapping generations model with...

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