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The impact of cost on the choice of university

8 Sep 2011

The estimation method which we employ allows us to consider not only the effect of institutional characteristics but also that of the average income of the neighbourhood from which the students come so as to test Coelli’s finding for differences in the response to cost by the socioeconomic background of the student. [...] The effect of the double cohort is also shown in Column 3 where the ratio of registrants to 19 year-olds grew from about 26% to 30% from the beginning to the end of the period. [...] The OUAC data do not contain family income information but they do contain the student’s postal code at the time of application and this can be linked to the Enumeration Area (EA) of the family in the 1996 Census and the Dissemination Area (DA) of the family in the 2001 and 2006 Censuses. [...] The instability in the net cost coefficient in our simplest model may reflect the fact that the impact of this variable differs by the economic background of the student. [...] Hence, the estimates for students in the professional programs, unlike those in Arts and Sciences, do not indicate that an increase in net cost is associated with an increase in the ratio of the share of students from high income neighborhoods to the share of students from middle income and low income neighborhoods.
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Authors

Dooley, Martin D

Pages
41
Published in
Canada

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