Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58242 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
WPEHE Discussion Paper No. 73
Publisher: 
Williams College, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education (WPEHE), Williamstown, MA
Abstract: 
Using data for 2008/09, we update a 2001/02 study that examined the pricing policies with respect to family income at highly selective private colleges and universities and the distribution of students by family income at these schools. We find significant reductions in net prices relative to sticker prices and incomes across all income quintiles, as expected given financial aid policy changes at these schools in recent years. More interestingly, we find some increase in the share of low-income students at these schools, and increase on average from about 10% to 11% from the bottom 40% of the income distribution. We also find an increase in the share of the student body from top income quintile receiving financial aid (from about 14,5% to 18% of the student body). The share of all students, aided and non-aided, from the top 20% of the income distribution has remained approximately constant during this period, suggesting that the increase in the share of aided students in the quintile has come from formerly and unaided high income students.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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