Modelling the U.S. Market for Higher Education and Evaluating Public Funding Policies: Theory and Estimation

模拟美国高等教育市场并评估公共资助政策：理论与估计

• 批准号: 1355892
• 负责人: Dennis Epple
• 金额: $ 54.78万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-15 至 2018-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1355892&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Modelling; U.S.; Market; Higher; Education

Current issues related to the funding model for higher education bring to the forefront striking features of this market in the U.S.: the coexistence of competing public and private sectors; a high degree of differentiation in college characteristics within and across sectors; and latitude for charging differential tuition to students based on place of residence, household income, and academic qualifications. Surprising little research on the interaction between colleges, public and private, is available to inform the policy debate. This research provides a model that characterizes the interaction of providers of higher education and can be used to evaluate alternative public funding policies. This research will advance the research frontier in, at least, three important dimensions. First, the PIs will provide a new framework that incorporates important features of competition between private and public universities. The framework will capture differences in objectives between public and private institutions, differences in resources, and differences in constraints on tuition and admission policies. Second, the PIs will undertake empirical testing of their model. They will assemble a new data set on public and private universities as well as on parental and student choices. They propose to develop new estimators that can deal with the complex pricing and sorting patterns generated by their model. Finally, they propose to explore the policy implications of their work. They will examine changes in state and federal financial aid policies, and their impact on student attainment and achievement, as well as access to higher education by disadvantaged groups of society. The research develops, estimates, and applies a new framework for understanding the market for higher education and for studying education policy issues. This framework significantly advances the state-of-the art in research providing a detailed analysis of the differences in objectives and constraints faced by private and public universities. The proposed research will provide the first estimated model of public-private competition in higher education and is thus on the frontier of integrating theory, computation, and estimation. The general-equilibrium approach is particularly important for study of changes in state and federal policies and the associated changes in admission and tuition policies. The research explores important current public policy issues. Research findings will be disseminated via conferences, seminars, and research papers to promote broad access to the results. Ph.D. students will participate in the research and develop related research, thus contributing both to their training and to the body of knowledge on the subject matter of this proposal.

与高等教育资金模型有关的当前问题使美国这个市场的最前沿特征成为了竞争公共和私营部门的共存；跨部门内部和跨部门的大学特征的高度分化；和纬度，以根据居住地，家庭收入和学历向学生收取差异学费。令人惊讶的是，关于大学，公共和私人之间互动的研究很少，可以为政策辩论提供信息。这项研究提供了一个特征的模型，该模型表征了高等教育提供者的相互作用，并可用于评估替代性公共资助政策。 这项研究将至少在三个重要方面推进研究边界。首先，PI将提供一个新的框架，结合私立大学和公立大学之间竞争的重要特征。该框架将捕获公共机构和私人机构之间的目标差异，资源差异以及学费和入学政策的约束差异。其次，PI将对其模型进行经验测试。他们将在公立大学和私立大学以及父母和学生的选择上组装新的数据。他们建议开发新的估计器，以处理其模型产生的复杂定价和分类模式。最后，他们建议探索其工作的政策含义。他们将研究州和联邦经济援助政策的变化及其对学生成就和成就的影响，以及在社会中处于弱势群体的高等教育。 该研究开发，估算并应用了一个新框架，以了解高等教育市场和研究教育政策问题。该框架在研究方面显着提高了最先进的研究，从而提供了对私立大学和公立大学所面临的目标和约束差异的详细分析。拟议的研究将提供第一个在高等教育中的公私竞争的估计模型，因此是整合理论，计算和估计的前沿。通用平衡方法对于研究州和联邦政策的变化以及入学和学费政策的相关变化尤为重要。 该研究探讨了当前重要的公共政策问题。研究结果将通过会议，研讨会和研究论文传播，以促进广泛获取结果。博士学生将参与研究并开发相关研究，从而为他们的培训和有关该提案主题的知识带来贡献。