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The Impact of <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> College Rankings on Admissions Outcomes and Pricing Policies at Selective Private Institutions
(1999-07-01)Despite the widespread popularity of the U.S. News & World Report College rankings there has been no empirical analysis of the impact of these rankings on applications, admissions, and enrollment decisions, as well as on ... -
Higher Education: The Ultimate Winner-Take-All Market?
(1999-09-27)[Excerpt] John Maynard Keynes once compared investing in the stock market to picking the winner of a beauty contest. In each case, it’s not who you think will win, but who you think others will pick. The same characterization ... -
Why Can’t Colleges Control Their Costs?
(1999-10-26)[Excerpt] Over 30 years ago William Bowen (1967) studied data from a set of selective private institutions and concluded that their tuition levels had been rising, on average, by 2 to 3 percent more annually than the rate ... -
Nerd Harassment and Grade Inflation: Are College Admissions Policies Partly Responsible?
(2000-01-01)[Excerpt] In the eyes of American parents, college admissions officers control the single most important gate their children will ever pass through. Nearly all parents hope their child will go to college. Perceptions of ... -
The Impact of the <i>Business Week</i> and <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> Rankings on the Business Schools They Rank
(2000-05-01)[Excerpt] This paper examines the widely popular Business Week and U.S. News &World Report rankings of the top business schools to determine their impact on the admissions outcomes, pricing policies, and career placement ... -
Determinants of Faculty Gender Ratios Across Institutions and Departments
(2000-05-01)Faculty gender ratios vary considerably across institutions, and past research (Tolbert and Oberfield 1991; Bach and Perrucci 1984) has shown that certain characteristics of institutions have a significant effect on these ... -
Financial Prospects for American Higher Education in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] In an important paper written for the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, Harold Hovey pointed out that even if economic growth continued, the outlook for state funding of public higher education ... -
Will Trustees Tame Tuition?
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] In recent years, tuition has similarly continued to increase by more than inflation. However, during the 1980s real income growth stagnated in the United States. As a result, tuition as a share of family income ... -
Ivy League Athletic Performance: Do Brains Win?
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] The Ivy League, which consists of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale universities, is unique among the athletic conferences that compete at the Division I (major ... -
Paying our Presidents: What do Trustees Value?
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] Our study makes use of data from a panel of over 400 private colleges and universities on the salaries and benefits paid to their presidents. These data are reported annually to the Internal Revenue Service on ... -
Come and Stay a While: Does Financial Aid Effect Enrollment and Retention at a Large Public University?
(2001-08-01)[Excerpt] Few studies have examined whether financial aid affects college retention. This paper models the decision to enroll and re-enroll in college, which yields a bivariate probit model that is estimated using detailed ... -
How College Enrollment Strategies Affect Student Labor Market Success
(2001-12-01)[Excerpt] This paper analyzes how the composition of an institution’s student body affects the performance of that institution’s students. In particular, we investigate how the average student quality and the dispersion ... -
The Determinants of an Institution’s Transfer Student Enrollment
(2001-12-01)[Excerpt] Students transferring between institutions of higher learning are an important part of the higher education system. Recent work estimates, using a sample of students who began postsecondary education in the fall ... -
The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement in Higher Education: Applying an Earnings Function
(2002-11-01)This paper uses an earnings function to model how class size affects the grade students earn. We test the model using an ordinal logit with and without fixed effects on 363,023 undergraduate observations. We find that class ... -
Tracking Community College Transfers Using National Student Clearinghouse Data
(2003-04-04)[Excerpt] One of the central roles for the community college is to provide a low cost, accessible education for students working toward a bachelor's degree. Their success in fulfilling this mission is a subject of some ... -
Increasing Earnings Inequality in Faculty Labor Markets
(2003-09-01)From the late 1980s to the late 1990s, U.S. college and university faculty experienced increasing earnings inequality. This rising dispersion in earnings is the result of both increasing earnings inequality between ... -
How College Affects Students: Toward the Reconciliation of Theory With Empirical Evidence
(2003-12-01)Previous research has generally shown a very small although statistically significant economic benefit from attending high-quality colleges. This small effect was at odds with what students’ college choices and various ... -
The Changing Composition of American-Citizen PhDs
(2004-03-09)We describe patterns in the composition of American-citizen doctorate recipients from the early 1960s to 2000. The propensity of bachelor’s degree recipients to earn PhDs varied widely during the 1960s and 1970s, especially ... -
Understanding Faculty Out-of-Class Interaction with Undergraduate Students at a Research University
(2004-11-05)While much has been published about the ways in which students gain from contact with faculty, much less is known about the patterns and correlates of such contact for faculty members. Drawing upon data from a survey of ... -
Public versus Private University Presidents Pay Levels and Structure
(2004-12-01)A number of existing studies have examined the determinants of private university presidents' compensation, but none have estimated the recent earnings differential between public and private university presidents. This ...
