| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w22901
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 22901
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| Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas |
| Rodney Andrews; Kevin Stange
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| 发表日期 | 2016-12-05
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | This paper assesses the importance of price regulation and price discrimination to low-income students' access to opportunities in public higher education. Following a policy change in the state of Texas that shifted tuition-setting authority away from the state legislature to the governing board of each public university, most institutions raised sticker prices and many began charging more for high-return undergraduate majors, such as business and engineering. We use administrative data on Texas public university students from 2000 to 2009 matched to earnings records, financial aid, and new measures of tuition and resources at a program level to assess how deregulation affected the representation of disadvantaged students in high-return institutions and majors in the state. We find that poor students actually shifted towards higher-return programs following deregulation, relative to non-poor students. Deregulation facilitated more price discrimination by increasing grant aid for low-income students and also enabled supply-side enhancements such as more spending per student, which may have partially offset the detrimental effects of higher sticker price. The Texas experience suggests that providing institutions more autonomy over pricing and increasing sticker prices need not diminish the opportunities available to disadvantaged students. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare
; Education
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22901
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580574
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Rodney Andrews,Kevin Stange. Price Regulation, Price Discrimination, and Equality of Opportunity in Higher Education: Evidence from Texas. 2016.
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