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ERIC Number: EJ1216078
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2015
Pages: 15
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2984
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The Price Elasticity of Freshman Enrollment Demand at a Historically Black College for Males: Implications for the Design of Tuition and Financial Aid Pricing Schemes That Maximize Black Male College Access
Price, Gregory; Sheftall, Willis
Journal of Negro Education, v84 n4 p578-592 Fall 2015
This article explores how responsive freshman enrollment demand is to changes in the price of enrollment at a selective private all-male historically Black college. With post-admission administrative data on newly admitted freshmen for the 2009-2010 academic year, the authors use a count data estimator to calculate the responsiveness of course hours taken to changes in tuition and household income at the intensive margin. The results reveal that student course hour enrollment-- which translate into measures of official full-time equivalent enrollment--is inelastic with respect to price and elastic with respect to household income. The intensive margin enrollment price elasticity estimates also support a high tuition/high financial aid pricing scheme that uses tuition revenue to cross-subsidize the price of enrollment for financially needy students, which maximizes college access for Black males.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Georgia (Atlanta)
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