A Passage to America: University Funding and International Students

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bound, John; Braga, Breno; Khanna, Gaurav; Turner, Sarah
• 署名单位: University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; National Bureau of Economic Research; Urban Institute; University of California System; University of California San Diego; University of Virginia
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20170620
• 发表日期: 2020
• 页码: 97-126
• 关键词: state

摘要

The number of international undergraduate students at US public research universities increased dramatically over the past two decades, alongside concurrent reductions in state support for universities. We show that these trends are closely connected as public research universities relied on foreign students to cushion the effects of falling appropriations. The growing capacity in emerging economies to pay for a US education provided opportunities for universities to recover revenues from full-fare-paying foreign students. We estimate that between 1996 and 2012, a 10 percent reduction in state appropriations led to an increase in foreign enrollment of 16 percent at public research universities.