Are We Keeping College Affordable? Student Aid, Access, and Choice in American Higher Education

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

No DP-34, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: In our 1991 Brookings book, "Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity", we examined whether our nation's colleges and universities were affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds, and outlined policies aimed at the efficient allocation of government and private resources towards that aim. In this paper we review, update, and expand our earlier analysis.

Keywords: EDUCATION; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I22 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36 pages
Date: 1996
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Published by Brookings Institution Press 1991 c. 252 pages.

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