Predicting the Impact of College Subsidy Programs on College Enrollment

There is currently a great deal of interest in the potential of college subsidy programs to increase equitable access to higher education and to reduce the financial burden on college attendees. In this article, the authors turn to a computational modeling approach (“Agent-based modeling”) that allows them to explicitly simulate individual college and student decisions over time. Their model is grounded in a strong body of evidence about how students and colleges make application, admissions, and enrollment decisions.