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Belley, Philippe; Frenette, Marc; Lochner, Lance – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2011
This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income--post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the…
Descriptors: Family Income, Family Characteristics, Foreign Countries, Student Financial Aid
Lovenheim, Michael F.; Reynolds, C. Lockwood – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2012
The higher education system in the United States is characterized by a large degree of quality heterogeneity, and there is a growing literature suggesting students attending higher quality universities have better educational and labor market outcomes. In this paper, we use NLSY97 data combined with the difference in the timing and strength of the…
Descriptors: College Choice, Labor Market, Housing, Educational Quality