The effects of higher education subsidies in kind on individual student choices [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3283109
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Ganderton, Philip Thomas
- Description:
- 87 p.
- Summary:
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Provision of public higher education is perhaps the most obvious form of government subsidy to individuals wishing to invest in formal higher education. Public colleges offer a service almost perfectly substitutable for a college education obtainable in the private sector, but at a price substantially lower. This subsidy in kind attracts students who would otherwise be unable to participate in higher education as well as providing higher quality alternatives for students constrained by family wealth and capital markets to choose poorer quality private colleges. Unfortunately, public colleges also draw wealthy students away from the private sector as they trade off college quality for lower tuition. The theoretical model described here indicates that social losses are generated when students choose a public sector quality that differs from the quality otherwise chosen in the private sector.
The empirical analysis of college choice follows from the model and uses data from the High School and Beyond survey of high school seniors. Estimates of the college quality chosen in each sector are obtained after correction for possible selectivity bias. Ability and wealth measures are found to be major determinants of college quality. These estimates provide strong evidence that public colleges cause net welfare losses by attracting students from higher quality private colleges. This suggests the need for mechanisms that limits the access to public colleges of those students whose financial situation would allow them to choose the optimal quality college in the private sector.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI9014696
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 51-01, Section: A, page: 0251.
- Chair: Jon Sonstelie.
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 1989.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- University of California, Santa Barbara
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