college tuition

EPI Working papers

Marginal Pricing and Student Investment in Higher Education

December 1, 2014

Steven Hemelt, Kevin Stange

This paper examines the effect of marginal price on students’ educational investments using rich administrative data on students at Michigan public universities. Marginal price refers to the amount colleges charge for each additional credit taken in...

EPI Working papers

Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production by Field

June 1, 2013

Kevin Stange

In the face of declining state support, many universities have introduced differential pricing by undergraduate program as an alternative to across-the-board tuition increases. This practice aligns price more closely with instructional costs and...

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Postsecondary preparation & success

Early First-Dollar Categorical Need-Based Aid: A New Model for Making College Affordable?

July 2022

Kevin Stange, Katherine Michelmore, Megan Tompkins-Stange, Marissa Thompson, Elizabeth Burland, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Xavier Fields, Chelsea Giller, Kelcie Gerson, Kyle Kwaiser, Samuel Owusu, Nathan Sotherland, Nicole Wagner Lam, Qia Yang

The purpose of this project is to evaluate how the Tuition Incentive Program (TIP), a large first-dollar aid program in Michigan, impacts postsecondary outcomes for low-income high school students. This project is the first rigorous evaluation of TIP, which will yield broader lessons for college affordability policy in other states and at the federal level.The research team is using a mixed-methods approach. In the first stage of the project, the researcher team has utilized administrative data to perform a descriptive analysis of program eligibility and take-up. To estimate TIP program...

Restructuring Student Loans: Question and answer session

Jun 13, 2016 1:01:51

Experts provide policymakers, education practitioners and press with cross-national perspectives on student debt and repayment. June, 2016.

Rohit Chopra and Susan Dynarski: Is there a student debt crisis?

Jan 27, 2016 1:10:00

Rohit Chopra and Susan Dynarski discuss the repercussions of the $1.3 trillion dollar student loan deficit on higher education and economic inequality. January 2016.