What's Happened to the Price of College? Quality-Adjusted Net Price Indexes for Four Year Colleges.

Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Scafidi, Benjamin

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Publication Date: 2004-Jun-22

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What's Happened to the Price of College? Quality-Adjusted Net Price Indexes for Four Year Colleges

Schwartz, Amy Ellen; Scafidi, Benjamin

Journal of Human Resources, v39 n3 p723 Sum 2004

Hedonic models of the price of college to construct quality-adjusted net price indexes for U.S. four-year colleges were estimated. A 22 percent decline in the estimated price index is reported by adjusting for financial aid, while quality adjusting results lead to a smaller decline, for academic years 1990-91 to 1994-95.

Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Paying for College, Models, Higher Education, Student Financial Aid

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