RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Do Public Tuition Subsidies Promote College Enrollment?
A1 McCall, Brian
K1 Subvenciones
AB This paper estimates the effect of tuition rates on college enrollment using data for Texasfrom the 1990 and 2000 Censuses and the 2004 – 2010 American Community Surveys andgeographical data on Community College Taxing Districts. The effect of tuition onenrollment is identified by the facts that tuition rates for those living within a taxing district are lower than those living outside the taxing district and in Texas not all geographiclocations are in a taxing district. While the estimated effect of tuition on enrollment dependson the sample used, it is negative and mostly statistically significant in the samples of adults18 and older and negative and sometimes statistically significant in the samples of traditional age students 18 to 24. The estimated effect of tuition on enrollment, however, is found to vary considerably by poverty level status with an increase in tuition rates having a statistically significant negative effect on college enrollment for those with household incomes that are at least 200% of the poverty level both for traditional aged students 18 to 24 years old and all adults 18 and older.
YR 2015
FD 2015-02-20
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10630/8960
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10630/8960
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026