@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp17408, author={Antman, Francisca M.}, title={Incorporating Changes in Race, Gender, and Academic Field at Colleges and Universities - A Comment on 'The Ebbing Tide: How Will Higher Education Adapt to Demographic Change?'}, year={2024}, month={Oct}, institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)}, address={Bonn}, type={IZA Discussion Paper}, number={17408}, url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17408}, abstract={Jacob L. Vigdor (2024)'s noteworthy contribution in "The Ebbing Tide: How Will Higher Education Adapt to Demographic Change?" estimates the impact of demographic change on colleges and universities. Here, I highlight two critical factors that should be considered in a model aimed at understanding changes in college enrollment that will shape the future of higher education: college major choice and demographic diversity, including the race/ethnicity, and gender of students. More broadly, incorporating more nuanced measures of demand for institutions of higher education and their programs of study into a model of enrollment changes would be a useful extension of this work.}, keywords={race;college major choice;higher education;gender;ethnicity}, }