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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Class Size Controversy
(2001-02-06)[Excerpt] When we ask whether class size matters for achievement, it is essential to ask also, how class size matters. This is important for three reasons. First, if we can observe not only achievement differences, but ... -
The Sources and Uses of Annual Giving at Private Research Universities
(2001-03-28)[Excerpt] In 1998-99, Cornell University and Duke University were ranked second and third in the nation, respectively, in terms of the volume of giving each received from external donors. That year Cornell reported receiving ... -
Trustees and Faculty Retirement Policies
(2001-03-30)[Excerpt] Large numbers of faculty retirements in the years ahead will provide institutions with the flexibility to reconstitute their faculty along disciplinary and demographic lines. However, many institutions may worry ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Supply of American Higher Education Institutions
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] An extraordinary amount of research has already been directed towards understanding the behavior of selective private institutions; Clotfelter (1996) and Ehrenberg (2000a) are but two recent examples of this ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Has the Growth of Science Crowded Out Other Things at Universities?
(2001-04-11)[Excerpt] While many faculty members associated with the arts and humanities and the social sciences bemoan what appears to be an ever increasing share of campus resources going to science, there is little hard evidence ... -
Reaching for the Brass Ring: How the <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> Rankings Shape the Competitive Environment in U.S. Higher Education
(2001-05-01)[Excerpt] So institutions at all places in the selectivity game are thinking about their US News & World Report (USNWR) rankings. In the next section of the paper I will discuss the formula that USNWR used to compute its ... -
What a Difference a Decade Makes: Growing Wealth Inequality Among Ivy League Institutions
(2001-05-03)[Excerpt] The eight Ivy League institutions – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Yale - are among our nations most selective undergraduate institutions. They also are among its ... -
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 ...
