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Free tuition and college enrollment: evidence from New York’s Excelsior program

Nguyen, Hieu·2019·Education Economics
DOI 10.1080/09645292.2019.1652727
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Since the fall of 2017, New York has offered free tuition to eligible residents attending its state-funded two-year and four-year colleges under its unique Excelsior Scholarship program. We use the difference-in-differences and generalized synthetic control estimators to document that institution-level enrollment effects are negligible. Our study provides the first evidence of enrollment responses to a state-wide promise program within the four-year sector and adds new results to the fast-growing free-college literature. We propose competing channels to rationalize the obtained findings and compare Excelsior with other prominent initiatives to shed light on both design and implementation.

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  • The only available study of Excelsior's enrollment effects finds negligible effects on enrollment, though small positive effects cannot be ruled out for the four-year public sector.

    “The study finds negligible effects on enrollment, though small positive effects cannot be ruled out for the four-year public sector (Nguyen, 2019).”

    From College Costs, Financial Aid, and Student Decisions (2022) · cites this paper as Nguyen, 2019

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Authors
Nguyen, H.
Affiliations
University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
Corresponding author
Nguyen, Hieu
ORCID
Nguyen, Hieu
Venue
Education Economics
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2019-08-13
Volume
27
Issue
6
Pages
573-587
ISSN
  • 0964-5292 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-5782
DOI
10.1080/09645292.2019.1652727
OpenAlex
W2969033446
Semantic Scholar
70862af2c76636bdfcebd05267c97bce8a3101b0
Cited by
31
References
16
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1
FWCI
9.44
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Education Economics (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Higher Education Research Studies
  • Social Sciences › Education › School Choice and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Education and Public Policy
Keywords
tuition-free education, college enrollment, promise programs, four-year colleges, community colleges

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