This report addresses the relationship between tuition, financial aid, and access to public higher education through an economic analysis of data from individual states from 1976 to 1993. The analysis focuses on states, rather than the individual, as the unit of observation and how state policies regarding the setting of tuition rates and…

This study examines how accurately first-year undergraduate students at a public university self-report family income. A comparison of student-reported income to financial aid records found that less than 40 percent of students in three incoming classes of first-year undergraduates (1995, 1996, 1997) accurately reported family income on an…