Title:

Institutional Responses to State Merit Aid Programs: The Case of Florida Community Colleges

Author(s):

Calcagno, Juan Carlos
Alfonso, Mariana

Date:

2007

Type:

Working papers

Department:

Community College Research Center

Permanent URL:

http://hdl.handle.net/10022/AC:P:12709

Series:

CCRC Working Paper

Part Number:

8

Notes:

http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

Publisher:

Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University

Publisher Location:

New York

Abstract:

This study estimates the effects of a state merit aid program on community colleges by using the introduction of the Florida Bright Futures Scholarship program as a natural experiment. It examines the effects of the program in terms of institutional aid, tuition pricing, and as a re-sorting mechanism for high ability students. The results suggest that community colleges do not increase students' charges to capture additional revenues, nor do they substitute state aid for institutional aid. Contrary to what was expected, institutions apparently use the scholarship program as an "ability marker" to provide additional financial aid to high ability students. Although we find no statistical evidence that the community college system is losing high ability students, there is strong support for heterogeneity in the program effect across institutions that depends on measures of the level of competition within each college's educational marketplace.

Subject(s):

Community college education

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