Dickson, Lisa M.Pender, Matea2018-06-222018-06-222014http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83690In 2001, the Texas state legislature passed House Bill 1403. With the passage of the law, Texas became the first state to legislate that non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) who graduated from an in-state high school and resided in the state for three years could pay instate resident tuition rates at public universities. As a result of the policy change, the cost of attending college at public universities in Texas fell dramatically for non-citizens. Using administrative data from five universities in Texas, we employ a quasi-experimental design to identify the effects of the policy change on the probability of enrollment at each of the universities. Our results demonstrate a large and significant positive effect of lowering tuition on the enrollment of non-citizens at the University of Texas at Pan American and the University of Texas at San Antonio.application/pdfen-USCreative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 InternationalUndocumented studentsin-state tuitionstudent financial aidTexasEducation--higheruniversity attendanceArticlehttps://economics.umbc.edu/files/2014/09/wp_10_125.pdf