Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

Gordon Winston, Catharine Hill and Stephanie Boyd

No DP-66, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: Working from the financial aid records of individual students at 28 highly selective private colleges and universities, we were able to calculate both the price the low-income students at these schools actually pay for a year’s education,net of financial aid grants, and how the schools differentiate net price in recognition of their students’ different family incomes—their pricing policies.

Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2003-10, Revised 2004-01
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Published in Journal of Human Resources, Fall 2005, v. 40, iss. 4, pp. 769-90

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