Moore, Gary A. 1978. "Equity Effects of Higher Education Finance and Tuition Grants in New York State." Journal of Human Resources 13(4):482-501.

In the present fiscal environment of increasingly scarce higher education resources, the development of equitable higher education financing programs has been given special emphasis. A 1973 Carnegie Commission study contained numerous recommendations for improving equity in postsecondary education finance, and the State of New York has implemented several of these recommendations. This paper estimates redistributional effects of the state's programs for the State University of New York system, as well as providing some preliminary estimates of public-private enrollment effects. The state's programs redistribute some current income toward lower- and middle-income families, and they appear to be providing disproportionate benefits to the private institutions, at least in terms of preliminary relative enrollment patterns.

The author is Assistant Professor of Economics, State University of New York College at Geneseo. This research was supported by a summer research grant from the SUNY University Awards Committee. The author wishes to thank the following individuals for assistance in data collection: William Caren, SUNY-Geneseo Office of Admissions; Samuel Chait, New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; Sanford Gordon, Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Policy and Planning, SUNY-Central; Norm Hostetter, SUNY-Central Office of Admissions; Marty Lefkowitz, SUNY-Central Office of Financial Aids; James McNally, SUNY-Geneseo Office of Institutional Research; and Richard Welch, SUNY-Geneseo Office of Financial Aids. In addition, W. Lee Hansen, David A. Martin, and two anonymous referees provided helpful comments on earlier drafts.

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