Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/60595 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
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Staff Report No. 192
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, New York, NY
Abstract: 
This paper uses a game-theoretic model to analyze the disincentive effects of low-tuition policies on student effort. The model of parent and student responses to tuition subsidies is then calibrated using information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 and the High School and Beyond Sophomore Cohort: 1980-92. I find that although subsidizing tuition increases enrollment rates, it reduces student effort. This follows from the fact that a high-subsidy, low-tuition policy causes an increase in the percentage of less able and less highly motivated college graduates. Additionally
Subjects: 
and potentially more important
JEL: 
D64
D82
I21
I28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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