College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay For It

By M. Schapiro. 2005

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The Influence of Institutional Retention Climates on Student Persistence to Degree Completion: A Multilevel Approach (2009, background): “This finding was confirmed in a single-institution study of Dartmouth freshmen (Sacerdote 2001) and a later study of 5,400 students attending three highly selective colleges (Winston and Zimmerman 2004).”
The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence from the Housing Boom (2012, unknown): “Previous work also has found evidence that students are highly responsive to college quality differences among institutions (Long, 2004; Avery and Hoxby, 2004).”
Small Differences That Matter: Mistakes in Applying to College (2015, unknown): “Avery and Kane (2004) show that students have di¢ culty estimating even part of this utility.”
Why Do College Going Interventions Work (2017, unknown): “Consistent with other authors (e.g., Avery and Kane 2004), we find that students tend to overestimate the costs of tuition and fees.”
The Cost of Complexity in Federal Student Aid: Lessons from Optimal Tax Theory and Behavioral Economics (2006, background): “Rather, they miss a key deadline, or incorrectly ﬁ ll out a form, or fail to take a required class, and thereby fall off the path to college (Avery and Kane, 2004).”
Social Stratification in Higher Education (2009, background): “For example, although the degree of upward bias in estimates of tuition provided by students and their parents seems uniform across social origins (Avery & Kane, 2004; Grodsky & Jones, 2007), the effect of this bias may vary by SES.”
Improving the Targeting of Treatment (2012, background): “…students who are incorrectly assigned to college-level coursework might not only do worse academically than they would have otherwise, they might depress the achievement of their better-prepared peers (Carrell, Fullerton, & West, 2009; Sacerdote, 2001; Winston & Zimmerman, 2004; Zimmerman, 2003).”
Information, Role Models and Perceived Returns to Education Experimental Evidence from Madagascar (2013, background): “Several papers have surveyed college students in the US for their perceptions of incomes associated with different educational levels: Betts (1996), Dominitz and Manski (1996), Avery and Kane (2004). Most find that American students estimate quite well the mean earnings for a cohort, and think they ”
Borrowing Constraints, College Enrollment, and Delayed Entry (2013, background): “45 For other papers that examine the effects of the changes in the costs of college on enrollment, see, e.g., Dynarski ð2003Þ and various papers contained in Hoxby ð2004Þ.”
A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies* (2019, unknown): “…Massachussetts Adams Scholarship MA Scholarship 2005 20 x x Cohodes and Goodman (2014) Goodman (2008) Pell Grants in Ohio Ohio Pell 2000 19 x x Bettinger (2004) Pell Grants in Tennessee TN Pell 2008 20 x x Carruthers and Welch (2019) U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary…”
Virtual Classrooms: How Online College Courses Affect Student Success (2017, background): “For example, the literature on financial aid often finds that $1000 in financial aid increases persistence rates by about three percentage points (Bettinger 2004) and college mentorship increases persistence rates by five percentage points (Bettinger and Baker 2013).”
Addressing the Needs of Underprepared Students in Higher Education (2005, background): “Other studies document the fact that most high school students are unaware of college admission procedures, costs, and aid (Avery and Kane 2004).”
Real and imagined barriers to college entry: Perceptions of cost (2004, background): “8 factor of two or more, and that estimates for tuition at community colleges are more upwardly biased than estimates for tuition at four-year colleges (Avery and Kane, 2004; Ikenberry and Hartle 1998; Post 1990).”
Comparing the Determinants of Persistence for First-Generation and Continuing-Generation Students (2005, background): “In this study, grant aid was unrelated to the persistence of CGS, but grant aid had a significant positive effect on the persistence decisions of FGS (Bettinger, 2004; Paulsen & St. John, 2002).”
Safety First: Perceived Risk of Street Harassment and Educational Choices of Women (2021, background): “Choosing a worse ranked college has long-term consequences for students by affecting their academic training (Zhang 2005), network of peers (Winston and Zimmerman 2004), access to labor opportunities (Pascarella and Terenzini 2005), and lifetime earnings (Brewer, Eide and Ehrenberg 1999; Eide,…”