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Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income--post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the…
Descriptors: Family Income, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid
Griffith, Amanda L.; Rothstein, Donna S. – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2007
Students from low-income families are greatly underrepresented at selective colleges and universities in the United States. In an attempt to increase applications from low-income students, some institutions have developed programs involving increased recruitment of and more attractive financial aid packages for students from low-income families.…
Descriptors: Low Income, Family Income, Probability, Selective Admission
Surette, Brian J. – 1997
This report from the Federal Reserve Board examines 12 years of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) to examine: (1) the labor market returns to two-year college; (2) whether attendance at a two-year college helps students to transfer to a four-year college; and (3) whether reducing the costs of college would alter attendance…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Education Work Relationship, Employment, Labor Market
Sahin, Aysegul – Federal Reserve Bank of New York, 2004
This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort: 1980-92. I find that although…
Descriptors: Human Capital, College Graduates, Grants, Tuition