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Levine, Phillip B.; Ma, Jennifer; Russell, Lauren C. – Education Finance and Policy, 2023
Do students respond to sticker prices or actual prices when applying to college? These costs differ for students eligible for financial aid. Students who do not understand this may not apply to some colleges because of the perceived high cost. We test for this form of "sticker shock" using College Board data on SAT scores sent, as a…
Descriptors: College Applicants, Student Costs, Tuition, Student Reaction
Smith, Jonathan; Howell, Jessica; Hurwitz, Michael – Education Finance and Policy, 2022
We estimate the impact of one of the largest college-to-student outreach efforts in the nation, the College Board's Student Search Service. In an oversubscribed "order," colleges receive contact information of a randomly chosen subset of PSAT and SAT exam takers who opt into the service and meet colleges' search criteria from a larger…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, College Choice, High School Students, Program Effectiveness
Acton, Riley – Education Finance and Policy, 2021
Recent efforts to increase college access and completion concentrate on reducing tuition rates at community colleges, but researchers and policy makers alike have expressed concern that such reductions may not lead to long-term gains in college completion. In this paper, I use detailed data on students' college enrollment and completion outcomes…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Paying for College, Tuition
Goodman, Sarena; Volz, Alice Henriques – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Between 2000 and 2010, U.S. public colleges and universities experienced widespread and uneven changes in funding from state and local appropriations. We find that over this period annual decreases in statewide appropriations led to lower public enrollment and higher for-profit enrollment (with no effect on enrollment overall), as well as…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Proprietary Schools, Private Colleges, State Aid
Black, Sandra E.; Cortes, Kalena E.; Lincove, Jane Arnold – Education Finance and Policy, 2020
Access to higher education begins with a student's decision whether and where to apply to college. This paper examines racial and ethnic differences in college application behavior of high school graduates, using two recent graduation cohorts from Texas. We estimate racial and ethnic differences in the probability of applying to college,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Applicants, Racial Differences, Ethnicity