Tuition and financial aid in higher education: The case of California

Balderston, Frederick E.

doi:10.1016/s0272-7757(96)00079-9

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“…Important issues of the economics of HE are couched in quite different terms: how to evaluate the human capital that is produced through investments in HE; how to trace productivity improvements that justify public investment in HE, and how to assess the role of HE as a sorting, filtering and signalling mechanism (Balderston, 1997).…”

Section: Educational Management Administration and Leadership 32(2)supporting

confidence: 81%

Factors Underlying Technikon and University Enrolment Trends in South Africa

Imenda¹,

Kongolo

Grewal³

2004

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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This was a descriptive survey involving four South African higher education (HE) institutions. Specifically, the study sought to critically investigate factors that could explain enrolment patterns in universities and technikons. The findings indicated that the choices of the institutions were mainly made by the respondents themselves, based on their career preferences. Affordability and other financial considerations did not come out as a major factor in the ultimate choice of the institution by respondents from historically white institutions (HWIs). However, this was a major point of consideration for respondents from historically black institutions (HBIs). Furthermore, accessibility to financial aid did appear to be a major factor for all respondents. Other determining factors included the public image of the institution of choice; the perceived quality of staff; institutional stability; teaching resources and other facilities available to students; administrative efficiency (including the friendliness of staff); the operational and instructional language of the institution; admissions and course registration processes and procedures; fairness in the allocation of facilities and other resources; and physical appearance/attractiveness of the institutions. However, catering services did not come out as a critical factor in attracting students to the institutions. K E Y W O R D S declining enrolments, South African Higher Education Institutions

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Section: Educational Management Administration and Leadership 32(2)supporting

confidence: 81%

Factors Underlying Technikon and University Enrolment Trends in South Africa

Imenda¹,

Kongolo

Grewal³

2004

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

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“…This positive impact of financial aid on enrollment seems quite intuitive as financial aid softens the burden of the high cost of college (Balderston, 1997).…”

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Early commitment on financial aid and college decision making of poor students: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural China

Liu

Zhang

Luo

et al. 2011

Economics of Education Review

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“…The qualitative conclusions are also robust to changes in the HOPE program that occurred during the sample period. For example, after netting out variation in average enrollments (or award values) across years or across institutions with the inclusion of year and institution fixed effects, our reported specifications implicitly restrict the effect of HOPE in 1993and 1994to equal that in 1995, 1996, and 1997 to Pell enrollments, one should not anticipate significant implications of the 1995 income cap removal, since this pertained only to nonneedy students who, with or without the requirement to file, would not receive Pell assistance (e.g., the National Center for Education Statistics, table 414, 1998, reports that 90% of student participants in the two largest federal aid programs, the Stafford loan and the Pell grant, have family incomes below $40,000). Further, with data on Pell enrollments not available by class within institutions (i.e., freshman, sophomore, etc.…”

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“…In general, despite the size of the Pell program and the significant changes in the environment facing needy students targeted by Pell resources, prior research has noted a paucity of formal evidence associated with how the movement toward non-need-based aid has affected their access to a college education (e.g., Balderston 1997;Clotfelter 2004). While not measuring need directly, prior work has shown that the impact of merit aid in Georgia appears larger among relatively higher income groups and among institutions that attract relatively well-to-do students.…”

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HOPE for the Pell? Institutional Effects in the Intersection of Merit‐Based and Need‐Based Aid

Singell¹,

Waddell²,

Curs

2006

Southern Economic Journal

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Prior empirical evidence finds that general enrollment effects of merit‐aid programs such as the Georgia Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship are large and significant, while the effects of need‐based aid programs such as the Pell grant are modest and often insignificant. This paper uses new panel data on Pell awards to examine the influence of the Georgia HOPE scholarship on needy‐student enrollments. We demonstrate that the introduction of merit aid in Georgia generally improves the college access of needy students and has been leveraged into greater federal Pell assistance. While institution‐specific increases in both Pell enrollment and funding are largest at two‐year and less selective four‐year institutions, the results suggest that Pell students are not crowded out of more selective schools by HOPE's intent to retain the best Georgia high school students, as might have been anticipated.

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Tuition and financial aid in higher education: The case of California

Cited by 10 publications

References 2 publications

Factors Underlying Technikon and University Enrolment Trends in South Africa

Factors Underlying Technikon and University Enrolment Trends in South Africa

Early commitment on financial aid and college decision making of poor students: Evidence from a randomized evaluation in rural China

HOPE for the Pell? Institutional Effects in the Intersection of Merit‐Based and Need‐Based Aid

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