The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access.

Autor/inn/en	Levine, Phillip B.; Ritter, Dubravka
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The Racial Wealth Gap, Financial Aid, and College Access.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass.: National Bureau of Economic Research (2022), 56 S. PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w30490
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w30490
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Bildungsertrag; Diskriminierung; Vermögensverteilung; Studienfinanzierung; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Ethnische Gruppe; Minderheit; USA
Abstract	We examine how the racial wealth gap interacts with financial aid in American higher education to generate a disparate impact on college access and outcomes. Retirement savings and home equity are excluded from the formula used to estimate the amount a family can afford to pay. All else equal, omitting those assets mechanically increases the financial aid available to families that hold them. White families are more likely to own those assets and in larger amounts. We document this issue and explore its relationship with observed differences in college attendance, types of institutions attended, degrees attained, and education debt using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). We show that this treatment of assets provides an implicit subsidy worth thousands of dollars annually to students from families with above-median incomes. White students receive larger subsidies relative to Black students and Hispanic students with similar family incomes, and this gap in subsidies is associated with disadvantages in educational advancement and student loan levels. It may explain 10 percent to 15 percent of white students' advantage in these outcomes relative to Black students and Hispanic students.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2023/1