The Supply Side of Higher Education: Colleges and Universities

College Pricing and Financial Aid: Is there a Connection?

Long, B. T. (2006) “College Tuition Pricing and Federal Financial Aid: Is there a Connection?” Testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. Hearing: “Report Card on Tax Exemptions and Incentives for Higher Education: Pass, Fail, or Need Improvement?”

Long, B. T. (2004) “How do Financial Aid Policies affect Colleges? The Institutional Impact of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship.” Journal of Human Resources, vol. 39, no. 3.

This paper examines the effects of financial aid policies on the behavior of postsecondary institutions. Using the introduction of the Georgia HOPE Scholarship as a natural experiment, it investigates the impact of the policy on college pricing, institution aid, expenditures, and state appropriations. The results suggest that four-year colleges in Georgia, particularly private institutions, did respond by increasing student charges. In the most extreme case, colleges recouped approximately 30 percent of the scholarship award. As a result, the institutional responses reduced the intended benefit of the scholarship and increased the cost of college for non-recipients.

Long, B. T. (2003) “The Connection between Government Aid and College Pricing.” Journal of Student Financial Aid, vol. 33, no. 2.
 

Accountability and Institutional Incentives

Long, B. T. (2010) “Higher Education Finance and Accountability.” In Kevin Carey and Mark Schneider, Eds. Best in the World? Accountability and Unaccountability in American Higher Education. Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute.

Long, B. T. (2010) “The Supply Side of Higher Education: Higher Education Finance and the Potential of Using Institutional Incentives to Support Student Success.” Prepared for the project on Reform and Innovation in the New Ecology of U.S. Higher Education, Stanford University. Principal Investigators: Mitchell Stevens and Michael Kirst.