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To: isopatch who wrote (11222)7/19/2015 10:07:12 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 13056
 
The lowest average was from majors where a people get jobs related to those majors. There are probably other majors where most people who get the degree don't get jobs related to those majors. Those in the field that do get jobs related to those specific majors might get paid decently well, but the majority who don't get jobs in the field don't benefit so much from the degree. They learn some things at college, maybe have a fun time while their at it, and some employers will consider having any four year degree to be positive, but still their are a lot of degrees that aren't worth all that much.

As for plumbing (an things like HVAC repair etc.) it's probably not a bad idea for more young people to consider such jobs as a good alternative to college. OTOH there was a huge shift to them the greater supply of workers in this area would drive down compensation for those workers.



To: isopatch who wrote (11222)7/19/2015 7:55:39 PM
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Higher Tuition">More Subsidized Federal Student Loans => Higher Tuition
July 8, 2015, 10:34 am

The Federal Reserve Bank of NY has a study on the effect of increasing student loan availability on tuition. The key sentence is in bold:
When students fund their education through loans, changes in student borrowing and tuition are interlinked. Higher tuition costs raise loan demand, but loan supply also affects equilibrium tuition costs—for example, by relaxing students’ funding constraints. To resolve this simultaneity problem, we exploit detailed student-level financial data and changes in federal student aid programs to identify the impact of increased student loan funding on tuition. We find that institutions more exposed to changes in the subsidized federal loan program increased their tuition disproportionately around these policy changes, with a sizable pass-through effect on tuition of about 65 percent. We also find that Pell Grant aid and the unsubsidized federal loan program have pass-through effects on tuition, although these are economically and statistically not as strong. The subsidized loan effect on tuition is most pronounced for expensive, private institutions that are somewhat, but not among the most, selective.
If I understand this correctly, they are saying that policy change that result in $3 of additional subsidized borrowing capability by students leads to $2 in tuition increases. Talk about running in place!

Hat tip to Neal McCluskey of Cato, who has links to many more studies with similar results.

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