The Out-of-State Tuition Distortion

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Knight, Brian; Schiff, Nathan
• 署名单位: Brown University; Shanghai University of Finance & Economics
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-ECONOMIC POLICY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7731
• DOI: 10.1257/pol.20170499
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 317-350
• 关键词: financial-aid; higher-education; students; migration; colleges; mobility; IMPACT; matter; POLICY; hope

摘要

Public universities typically charge MUM higher tuition to nonresidents. We first investigate the welfare implications of this tuition gap in a simple model. While the social planner does not distinguish between residents and nonresidents, state governments set higher tuition for nonresidents. The welfare gains from reducing the tuition gap can be characterized by a sufficient statistic relating out-of-state enrollment to the tuition gap. We estimate this sufficient statistic via a border discontinuity design using data on the geographic distribution of students by institution. (JEL H75, 122, 123)