For Whom the Pell Tolls: Market Power, Tuition Discrimination, and the Bennett Hypothesis

Larry D. Singell () and Joe A. Stone ()
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Larry D. Singell: University of Oregon Economics Department

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Abstract: Are federal Pell grants "appropriated" by universities through increases in tuition - consistent with what is known as the Bennett hypothesis? Based on a panel of 71 universities from 1983 to 1996, we find little evidence of the Bennett hypothesis among either public or lower-ranked private universities. For top-ranked private universities, though, increases in Pell grants appear to be more than matched by increases in net tuition. The behavior most consistent with this result is price discrimination that is not purely redistributive from wealthier to needier students.

Date: 2003-04-10
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