Assessing the effects of changing institutional aid policy

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 653-678

  DesJardins, Stephen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

College choice; Financial aid; Logistic regression; Tuition discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035648051     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012249427051     Document Type: Article

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