Consumer Risk Preferences and Higher Education Enrollment Decisions

Tax Preferences for Higher Education and Adult College Enrollment

The federal government delivers substantial college aid through the tax code, after introducing education tax credits in 1998 and a tuition deduction in 2002. The design of the Lifetime Learning tax credit and the tuition deduction may make them particularly useful to older students. This paper investigates how these provisions have affected college attendance of individuals in their 30s and 40...

Education, Change of Consumer Preferences and Growth

The paper examines the effects on growth of both private and public investment in health, schooling and culture: in short, education. These expenditures exert two effects on the growth rate: (i)they increase labour and capital stock productivity through a positive externality, and (ii) they modify saving and investment decisions through the substitutability between education and private consump...

A study of the educational, cultural and social consequences of increasing women’s enrollment in higher education

The growing presence of girls in higher education is an issue that has attracted attention and has a lot of opponents and proponents. In this article, effects of this event were studied in three dimensions, cultural, social and educational. Research method was descriptive – survey and the population of study was all students and faculty members at Isfahan University, Isfahan University of Techn...

Risk attitudes and Medicare Part D enrollment decisions

Using Enrollment in Positioning for Prestige in American Higher Education

I explore both why and how American institutions of all types are using enrollment as a strategy to position themselves for greater prestige. I am interviewing presidents and collecting documentary data at 40 institutions connected to the Atlanta market, capturing its full range and thus all institution types represented in American higher education. My initial research indicates that instituti...