Tuition, Targeting, and Tradeoffs: A Conjoint Analysis of Americans' Preferences over the Design of Higher Education Subsidies

Autor/in	Imlay, Samuel J.
Titel	Tuition, Targeting, and Tradeoffs: A Conjoint Analysis of Americans' Preferences over the Design of Higher Education Subsidies
Quelle	In: Journal of Higher Education, 92 (2021) 6, S.986-1017 (32 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1546
DOI	10.1080/00221546.2021.1897965
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Educational Finance; Tuition; Paying for College; Student Financial Aid; Preferences; Eligibility; Tax Credits; Need Analysis (Student Financial Aid); Income; Politics of Education; Political Affiliation; Educational Policy; Policy Formation; Design; Public Opinion + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Bildungsfonds; Unterweisung; Unterricht; Studienfinanzierung; Finanzielle Beihilfe; Studienförderung; Eignung; Steuerermäßigung; Demand analysis; Bedarfsanalyse; Einkommen; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Politisches Interesse; Politics of education; Politische Betätigung; Öffentliche Meinung
Abstract	Over the past three decades, political candidates and elected policymakers have advanced a wide variety of publicly funded tuition-subsidy programs to improve college access and -affordability. These college-aid programs employ different subsidy instruments, target different types of students, draw from different funding sources, and come with different strings attached. This study assesses Americans' preferences over the multidimensional design of such higher education subsidies using a conjoint survey experiment with randomized policy proposals that vary in their subsidy instruments, target populations, eligibility requirements, and funding arrangements. The results suggest that fiscal tradeoffs loom large in Americans' support for higher education programs, but elements of subsidy design matter as well: respondents (particularly Republicans) prefer aid packaged as tax credits; strongly means-tested programs receive greater support than broader, income-based aid (an effect driven by Democrats); and subsidies targeted to community college students enjoy substantial, bipartisan support. The study's results shed light on differences in extant tuition-subsidy programs' popular support and provide empirical grounding for debates over the prudent design of college aid by estimating tradeoffs that programs confront between efficiently targeting marginal students and securing broad popular support. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01