In our 1991 Brookings book, "Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity", we examined whether our nation's colleges and universities were affordable for Americans of all economic and social backgrounds, and outlined policies aimed at the efficient allocation of government...

In this paper we summarize our recent work analyzing pricing, aid, access and choice in American higher education, and we draw out implications from those findings for national higher education policy. We find that real increases in net tuition have impaired access and choice principally for...

McPherson and Schapiro analyze data from the American Freshman Surveys of 1980, 1989 and 1993 to determine how family income has affected choice of institution, and how this has varied over time.