Outmigration and State and Local Appropriations for Public Higher Education

Robert R. Dunn
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Robert R. Dunn: Washington and Jefferson College

The Review of Regional Studies, 2015, vol. 45, issue 3, 237-251

Abstract: This paper focuses on the role of outmigration in determining public higher education funding from the 1993-1994 to the 2011-2012 academic years. The results of a fixed-effects estimation show that outmigration has a statistically significant and negative effect on the level of state funding when controlling for various state indicators, but the impact varies across state recessions and expansions. Findings on the role of state business cycles provide updated estimates of the relationship between migration and education funding but are generally in line with previous research.

Keywords: higher education funding; outmigration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I22 R11 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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