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Title: In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants and the Effect on In-State versus Out-of-State Students

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Publication Year: 2017

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Abstract: This paper studies whether laws allowing undocumented students to pay in-state tuition (and in some cases receive financial aid) impacts the enrollment of in-state students using difference-indifferences and an event study. Identification comes from whether and when states implement these types of laws. While the previous literature has found mixed results on whether undocumented immigrants increased their enrollment, this paper can reconcile the null and positive effects. If all states are aggregated together into one coefficient there is no significant effect using the difference-indifferences strategy. If Texas has its own coefficient, there is a significant increase in non-resident aliens in Texas but not in the other pooled states. Texas also offers financial aid which is likely part of the reason why the effect is larger. Defining treatment by type of policies reveals that only states with both in-state tuition and financial aid policies simultaneously implemented have positive enrollment impacts on non-resident aliens across types of public schools. In Texas four-year public schools there is an increase in the enrollment of in-state students which indicates that allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition did not lead to these schools enrolling more out-of-state students who would still pay higher out-of-state rates.

Url: https://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~agaulke/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/instate-2.pdf

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Authors: Gaulke, Amanda P

Publisher: Kansas State University

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Migration and Immigration, Other

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