%0 Report %A Baird, Matthew %A Kofoed, Michael S. %A Miller, Trey %A Wenger, Jennie %T Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post 9/11 GI Bill %D 2020 %8 2020 Sep %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) %C Bonn %7 IZA Discussion Paper %N 13701 %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp13701 %X In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from widely-varying by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This policy created exogenous variation in the changes in reimbursement rates in direction and magnitude for veterans at private universities. We leverage this variation to examine for-profit college responses to changes in reimbursement rates. We detect tuition responses only for for-profit colleges, where we estimate a one percent pass-through rate. This for- profit response is driven by colleges in states that saw decreased benefits, colleges with higher concentrations of veterans, and colleges whose pre-change tuition was above the state maximum but below the since-increased nationwide level; the last group has a pass-through rate of eight percent. This policy also caused declines in non-veteran populations showing a substitution towards veteran students. %K price discrimination %K Post 9/11 GI Bill %K for-profit colleges