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Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

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  • Catharine B. Hill
  • Gordon C. Winston
  • Stephanie A. Boyd

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Working from the financial aid records of individual students at 28 highly selective private colleges and universities, we were able to calculate both the price the low-income students at these schools actually pay for a year’s education, net of financial aid grants, and how the schools differentiate net price in recognition of their students’ different family incomes - their pricing policies.

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  • Catharine B. Hill & Gordon C. Winston & Stephanie A. Boyd, 2005. "Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 40(4), pages 769-790.
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