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Title: Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?
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Belley, Philippe Frenette, Marc Lochner, Lance John |
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Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy? NBER Working Paper No. 17218, National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2011. Also: http://www.nber.org/papers/w17218 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Keyword(s): College Enrollment; Family Income; Financial Assistance; Higher Education; Tuition This paper examines the implications of tuition and need-based financial aid policies for family income -- post-secondary (PS) attendance relationships. We first conduct a parallel empirical analysis of the effects of parental income on PS attendance for recent high school cohorts in both the U.S. and Canada using data from the 1997 Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and Youth in Transition Survey. We estimate substantially smaller PS attendance gaps by parental income in Canada relative to the U.S., even after controlling for family background, adolescent cognitive achievement, and local residence fixed effects. We next document that U.S. public tuition and financial aid policies are actually more generous to low-income youth than are Canadian policies. By contrast, Canada offers more generous aid to middle-class youth than does the U.S. These findings suggest that the much stronger family income -- PS attendance relationship in the U.S. is not driven by differences in the need-based nature of financial aid policies. Based on previous estimates of the effects of tuition and aid on PS attendance, we consider how much stronger income -- attendance relationships would be in the absence of need-based aid and how much additional aid would need to be offered to lower income families to eliminate existing income -- attendance gaps entirely. |
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Belley, Philippe, Marc Frenette and Lance John Lochner. "Post-Secondary Attendance by Parental Income in the U.S. and Canada : What Role for Financial Aid Policy?" NBER Working Paper No. 17218, National Bureau of Economic Research, July 2011. |