Post-secondary fees and the decision to attend a university or a community college

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Hilmer, MJ
• 署名单位: University of Louisville
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0047-2727
• DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2727(97)00075-3
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 329-348
• 关键词: college attendance; ordered probit; post-secondary fees

摘要

This paper examines the effect that post-secondary fees have on a potential student's decision to start his or her college education at a university or a community college. A theoretical model demonstrates that the student's decision follows a natural ordering that depends on his or her probability of graduation. Based on this natural ordering, ordered probit is used to estimate the effect of interstate variation in fees on student attendance. The results indicate that the own-price effects of fee increases are negative while the cross-price effects are positive. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A.