Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35588
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3785
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate the responsiveness of the demand for college to changes in student aid arising from a Danish reform. We separately identify the effect of aid from that of other observed and unobserved variables such as parental income. We exploit the combination of a kinked aid scheme and a reform of the student aid scheme to identify the effect of direct costs on college enrollment. To allow for heterogeneous responses due to borrowing constraints, we use detailed information on parents' assets. We find that enrollment is less responsive than found in other studies and that the presence of borrowing constraints only deters college enrollment to a minor extent.
Subjects: 
College attendance
educational subsidies
reform
kink regression
JEL: 
I22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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