College Costs: Subsidies, Intuition, and Policy

Gordon Winston

No DP-45, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: This paper describes the economic structure of a college or university, presents national data on the size and distribution of student subsidies, and demonstrates the often-perverse effects they create for public policies and expectations that ignore them.

Keywords: subsidy; college costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 1997
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