Quality, Tuition, and Applications to In-State Public Colleges

Autor/in	McDuff, DeForest
Titel	Quality, Tuition, and Applications to In-State Public Colleges
Quelle	In: Economics of Education Review, 26 (2007) 4, S.433-449 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-7757
DOI	10.1016/j.econedurev.2006.04.003
Schlagwörter	State Colleges; State Universities; Tuition; Educational Quality; College Choice; College Applicants; In State Students; Educational Demand; SAT (College Admission Test) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Staatliche Universität; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Quality of education; Bildungsqualität; Studienortwahl; College applications; Studienbewerber; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage
Abstract	This paper investigates the main determinants of applying to in-state public colleges and universities. I use data from over 500,000 SAT and ACT test takers to examine the roles of college quality and tuition in the college selection decision. I take advantage of the interstate variation in quality and tuition at the public flagship universities in each state to examine these influences empirically. The main finding is that student willingness to pay for quality is quite large. A one standard deviation increase across states in college quality at the flagship school is estimated to have an equal but opposite effect on student applications as a 70-80% increase in in-state tuition. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10