Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure

Martin Martin McGuigan (mcguigan@gmail.com), Sandra McNally and Gill Wyness
Additional contact information
Martin Martin McGuigan: Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics & Queen's Management School, Belfast

No 14-19, DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London

Abstract: University fees have recently trebled in England, prompting fears that young people may be put off from participating in higher education. We investigate students' knowledge and their receptiveness to information campaigns about the costs and benefits of staying on in education. We compare the effects of a specially designed information campaign to the effects of media exposure about the increase in tuition fees. The latter has a stronger effect on relevant outcomes. However, we find that an inexpensive information campaign can be effective in improving information and reducing perceived financial barriers to university participation, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Keywords: tuition fees; information campaign; educational decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-04
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-edu
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
https://repec.ucl.ac.uk/REPEc/pdf/qsswp1419.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure (2014)
Working Paper: Student Awareness of Costs and Benefits of Educational Decisions: Effects of an Information Campaign and Media Exposure (2014)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:qss:dqsswp:1419

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in DoQSS Working Papers from Quantitative Social Science - UCL Social Research Institute, University College London Quantitative Social Science, Social Research Institute, 55-59 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0NU. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Dr Neus Bover Fonts (n.bover-fonts@ucl.ac.uk).