Pricing Out the Disadvantaged? The Effect of Tuition Deregulation in Texas Public Four-Year Institutions

Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 655, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 99-122

  Flores, Stella M ^a   Shepherd, Justin C ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

college access; ethnicity; financial aid; low income students; race; tuition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907164163     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: 15523349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214539096     Document Type: Article

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