Chapter 23 Public Intervention in Post-Secondary Education

Handbook of the Economics of Education

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1369-1401

  Kane, Thomas J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

borrowing constraints; capacity constraints; D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant; education wage differential; educational attainment; enrollment rate; Expected Family Contribution; faculty salaries; financial aid; higher education; Hope Tax Credit; implicit tax; Lifetime Learning Tax Credit; means tested grant aid; National Assessment of Educational Progress; Pell Grant; perfect capital market; racial gap; SAT scores; Stafford Loan; subsidies in kind; tax credit; tuition; Vietnam War

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149244709     PISSN: 15740692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0692(06)02023-X     Document Type: Review

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