Determinants and Distributional Aspects of Enrollment in U.S. Higher Education

Arthur J. Corazzini, Dennis J. Dugan and Henry G. Grabowski

Journal of Human Resources, 1972, vol. 7, issue 1, 39-59

Abstract: Based upon human capital theory, an enrollment model for higher education is formulated with demand being subject to nonprice rationing by academic admission standards. Cross-sectional differences in student enrollment are related to variables representing both demand factors and supply-side constraints. Two questionnaire surveys - Project Talent's national cross-sectional sample in the early 1960s and a recent survey of 4,000 high school seniors in the Boston SMSA - provide sufficient data to test the theoretical hypothesis derived. At both levels of aggregation, strong structural relationships between college attendance and socioeconomic status emerge. Stratifying the on-going group by socioeconomic quartiles yields insights into the distributional aspects of higher education enrollment.

Date: 1972
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