College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go, When to Go, and How to Pay for It (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226355357 ISBN 13: 9780226355351

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

Aspiring college students and their families have many options. A student can attend an in-state or an out-of-state school, a public or private college, a two-year community college program or a four-year university program. Students can attend full-time and have a bachelor of arts degree by the age of twenty-three or mix college and work, progressing toward a degree more slowly. To make matters more complicated, the array of financial aid available is more complex than ever. Students and their families must weigh federal grants, state merit scholarships, college tax credits, and college savings accounts, just to name a few.

In College Choices, Caroline Hoxby and a distinguished group of economists show how students and their families really make college decisions—how they respond to financial aid options, how peer relationships figure in the decision-making process, and even whether they need mentoring to get through the admissions process. Students of all sorts are considered—from poor students, who may struggle with applications and whether to continue on to college, to high aptitude students who are offered "free rides" at elite schools. College Choices utilizes the best methods and latest data to analyze the college decision-making process, while explaining how changes in aid and admissions practices inform those decisions as well.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline M. Hoxby is a professor of economics at Harvard University. She is also director of the Economics of Education Program for the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution. She is the editor of the recent NBER volume The Economics of School Choice.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0226355357
• ISBN 13: 9780226355351
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335
• Editor: Hoxby Caroline M.