Increasing the price of a university degree does not significantly affect enrolment if income contingent loans are available: evidence from HECS in Australia

• Tác giả: Fabio Italo Martinenghi
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 376.64 [Unassigned]
• Thông tin xuất bản: 2021
• Bộ sưu tập: Metadata
• ID: 166181

Tóm tắt

I provide evidence that, when income-contingent loans are available, student enrolment in university courses is not significantly affected by large increases in the price of those courses. I use publicly available domestic enrolment data from Australia. I study whether large increases in the price of higher education for selected disciplines in Australia in 2009 and in 2012 was associated with changes in their enrolment growth. I find that large increases in the price of a course did not lead to significant changes in their enrolment growth for that course.