Individual Demand for Higher Education

The Pell Program at Thirty Years

“…These finding, although perhaps surprising, are consistent with early demand studies such as Jackson and Weathersby (1975) that suggested that college students are generally insensitive to variation in the net price of college. For example, Leslie and Brinkman (1987) conduct a metaanalysis using elasticity estimates from twenty-five college demand studies.…”

The influence of price subsidies on within-year persistence by graduate students

“…For example, if the delta-p statistic for tuition, coded in $1,000 increments (by dividing actual tuition by 1,000), has a value of -0.045, it can be interpreted as meaning a $1,000 tuition differential would decrease the probability of persistence by 4.5 percentage points -or that a $100 differential would decrease the probability by .45 percentage points. Thus, the delta-p statistic can be interpreted as similar to standardized student-price-response coefficients, which are defined as the change in probability that students will enroll for each $100 change in price (Jackson and Weathersby, 1975;Leslie and Brinkman, 1988;St. John, 1990a).…”

“…Jackson and Weathersby, 1975;Leslie and Brinkman, 1988). The approach developed by Leslie and Brinkman (1988) is more appropriate for converting the coefficients of linear regression analyses.…”

Community Colleges in the Post‐13 Era: Institutional Responses to Tax Limitation

“…The economic literature on demand for higher education suggests, with some consistency, that tuition charges of $100 are associated with enrollment-rate changes of about one percentage point (Cohn & Morgan, 1978;Jackson & Weathersby, 1975;McPherson, 1978). However, these studies include substantial number of high-scoring and affluent students, who are somewhat less responsive than average to the cost of higher education, so the response among prospective community-college students might be somewhat sharper.…”