Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307232 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17408
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Jacob L. Vigdor (2024)'s noteworthy contribution in "The Ebbing Tide: How Will Higher Education Adapt to Demographic Change?" estimates the impact of demographic change on colleges and universities. Here, I highlight two critical factors that should be considered in a model aimed at understanding changes in college enrollment that will shape the future of higher education: college major choice and demographic diversity, including the race/ethnicity, and gender of students. More broadly, incorporating more nuanced measures of demand for institutions of higher education and their programs of study into a model of enrollment changes would be a useful extension of this work.
Subjects: 
higher education
college major choice
race
gender
ethnicity
JEL: 
J1
I2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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