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Title: Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?
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1. Johnson, William R.
Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?
Education Finance and Policy 1,3 (Summer 2006): 288-315.
Also: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/edfp.2006.1.3.288
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: MIT Press
Keyword(s): Higher Education; Household Income; Income Distribution; Income Level; Life Cycle Research; Taxes; Tuition

This article estimates the dollar amount of public higher education subsidies received by U.S. youth and examines the distribution of subsidies and the taxes that finance them across parental and student income levels. Although youths from high-income families obtain more benefit from higher education subsidies, high income households pay sufficiently more in taxes that the net effect of the spending and associated taxation is distributionally neutral or mildly progressive. These results are robust to alternative assumptions and are consistent with Hansen and Weisbrod's earlier celebrated findings for California, although not with the conclusions often drawn from those findings.
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Johnson, William R. "Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?" Education Finance and Policy 1,3 (Summer 2006): 288-315.