Financing Postsecondary Learning Opportunities through Existing Federal Student Aid Programs

1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan P. Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Aid Programs

scholarly journals Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For-Profit Colleges

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Riegg Cellini ◽  
Claudia Goldin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Federal Aid ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Federal Subsidies ◽  
Aid Programs ◽  
New Evidence

We provide the first comprehensive estimates of the size of the for-profit higher education sector and evaluate whether for-profits increase tuition in response to federal subsidies. By using state administrative data we include institutions that do not participate in federal student aid programs and are missed in official counts. Including these institutions doubles the number of for-profits and increases students by one-third compared with official counts. Aid-eligible institutions charge tuition for sub-baccalaureate (mainly certificate) programs that is about 78 percent higher than that charged by comparable programs in nonparticipating institutions, lending some credence to the “Bennett hypothesis” of federal aid capture. (JEL H52, I22, I23, I28)

Why Don't Taxpayers Maximize their Tax-Based Student Aid? Salience and Inertia in Program Selection

2011 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Turner
Keyword(s):  
Income Tax ◽  
Financial Burden ◽  
Tax Incentives ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Single Tax ◽  
Tax Incentive ◽  
Program Selection ◽  
Tax Returns ◽  
Education Enrollment ◽  
Aid Programs

Abstract Tax-based federal student aid is designed to increase postsecondary attendance and ease the financial burden of higher education enrollment by offering students and their families a menu of tax incentives. However, many taxpayers who are eligible for more than one tax-based aid program, and who are limited to one program per student each year, fail to select the single program that offers the largest reduction in taxes. Analyzing a panel dataset of individual income tax returns, I find that in roughly one out of four returns taxpayers and paid preparers fail to select the tax-minimizing tax-based aid program. I find evidence that greater salience of federal tax effects, and inertia in program selection, leads some taxpayers and paid preparers to make non-tax-minimizing selections. Streamlining the set of tax-based aid programs into a single tax incentive is likely to be a more effective way of lowering the costs of postsecondary attendance for students and their families.

scholarly journals Service-conditional medical student aid programs

1982 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 586-92
Author(s):  
M A Strosberg ◽  
F Mullan ◽  
G R Winsberg
Keyword(s):  
Medical Student ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Aid Programs

Federal Student Aid and the Gender Dynamics of Political Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deondra Rose
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Student Aid ◽  
Education Policies ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Higher Education Policies ◽  
Political Citizenship ◽  
Mass Politics ◽  
Aid Programs

Chapter 7 investigates the feedback effects of federal higher education policies on women’s capacity and inclination to participate in politics. This analysis suggests that federal student aid programs have played a role in the declining gender gap in political engagement that we have seen in the last fifty years. By providing valuable resources that significantly increase the probability that beneficiaries will attain higher levels of education, broad-reaching financial aid policies have contributed to significant increases in women’s political interest, political efficacy, and involvement in political activities. Not only do federal higher education policies help to realize the promise of full and equal citizenship by promoting political engagement among a group that has traditionally been underrepresented in mass politics, but also they provide lessons for how the state can successfully use social policy to promote equality in terms of political citizenship.

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