Subsidy Shock: Reshaping Jugements of College Sticker Prices

G-R Goethals and C McPherson Frantz

No DP-39, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: Three studies tested the hypothese that 1) people know very little about the extent to which colleges and universities subsidize their students and 2) providing people with subsidy information leads them to judge the prices that such schools charge as more reasonble. The results offered qualified support for both hypotheses.

Keywords: EDUCATION; SUBSIDIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 1996
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