Plutarchos Sakellaris () (Department of Economics, University of Maryland and Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) Antonio Spilimbergo () (International Monetary Fund)
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We study the effect of economic fluctuations on investment in higher education for a wide range of countries. Our main focus is foreign students who come to the United States to attend university. There is a strong relation between enrollment and the business cycle in the sending country. The cyclical pattern of enrollment is sharply different for two groups of countries. For OECD countries enrollment is countercyclical, whereas for non-OECD countries it is procyclical. At business cycle frequencies, opportunity cost plays a dominant role in explaining enrollment from OECD countries, whereas ability to pay and credit constraints seem more prevalent at non-OECD countries. The results are confirmed using data on domestic enrollment from national sources.
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Paper provided by University of Maryland, Department of Economics in its series Electronic Working Papers with number
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Length: Date of creation: Sep 1999 Date of revision: Handle: RePEc:umd:umdeco:99-009
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