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Direct linkButcher, Kristin F.; Kearns, Caitlin; McEwan, Patrick J. – Research in Higher Education, 2013
This paper examines whether donations to colleges and universities are partly motivated by the desire of alumni to increase their children's admissions probabilities. The paper uses data from a single-sex college, so that only alums with a daughter would evince this motive. We find that alums with a teenage daughter, as opposed to a teenage…
Descriptors: Alumni, Donors, Private Financial Support, College Admission
