A Simple Unifying Measure of State Support for Postsecondary Education |
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| Authors: | Philip A Trostel and Justin M Ronca |
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| Institution: | (1) Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center & School of Economics, University of Maine, 5784 York #4, Orono, ME 04469, USA;(2) Wisconsin Center for the Advancement of Postsecondary Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 409 Education Building, Madison, WI 53706, USA |
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| Abstract: | Conflicting measures of state support for postsecondary education create confusion and misunderstanding that convolute debates
about states’ postsecondary education funding. The use of multiple measures is largely unnecessary, though. A simple single
measure is constructed that adequately quantifies both states’ postsecondary need and states’ ability to pay. Specifically,
this study proposes measuring state support for postsecondary education as state postsecondary funding per high school graduate
over the previous four years per dollar of per capita income.
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| Keywords: | Postsecondary education Public Funding Measurement States Need Ability to pay |
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