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A (Less Than) Zero Sum Game? State Funding for Public Education: How Public Higher Education Institutions Have Lost
(2003-09-01)It is well known that public higher education funding fluctuates dramatically with the business cycle – bearing the brunt of the legislative axe during tight budget periods with the expectation that it will be generously ... -
A (Less Than) Zero Sum Game? State Funding for Public Education: How Public Higher Education Institutions Have Lost
(2004-08-01)[Excerpt] This dissertation studies the long-term decline in state preferences for education spending in the United States. It constructs an expansive state-level panel data set spanning the fiscal years 1976-77 through ... -
A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program
(2007-01-01)I analyze a program implemented in Texas schools serving underprivileged populations that pays both students and teachers for passing grades on Advanced Placement (AP) examinations. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, ... -
Achievably-Efficient Enrollments Using High Tuition-High Aid in Public Higher Education
(2015-01-01)With public universities tuitions and state appropriations are determined as efficiently as possible (“quasi-efficiently”) to cover fixed costs, an opportunity arises to admit additional low-income students at marginal ... -
Adjusting College Cost Figures for Non-credit Enrollments
(2016-09-01)Community college practitioners are quick to note that official IPEDS analyses of expenditures and revenues per FTE overstate the amount they spend on each student. This results from the fact that enrollments in their ... -
Admissions, Financial Aid, and Development Policies
(2017-07-01)Would that academic institutions were simple organizations. If they were, the determination of what is considered ethical behavior in academic decision making probably would be clear cut. However, I will argue today, using ... -
Advance to Graduate Education: The Effect of College Quality and Undergraduate Majors
(2004-06-01)Using a nationally representative sample of baccalaureate graduates from 1993, we examine the effect of college quality and undergraduate majors on a variety of graduate education outcomes including graduate school enrollment, ... -
American Law Schools in a Time of Transition
(2011-12-07)[Excerpt] I will argue that reports of law school unintentionally or intentionally misreporting a variety of types of data to USNWR should not be surprising; we have long seen similar problems occurring with respect to its ... -
An Evaluation of The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship's Effect on PhD Production at Non-UNCF Institutions
(2017-01-01)The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) was established in 1988 to encourage underrepresented minority (URM) students to pursue PhD study with an eye towards entering academia. Fellows have completed PhDs ... -
Analysis of the Workforce and Workplace for Rheumatology, and the Research Activities of Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers
(2010-05-18)[Excerpt] The scope and scale of clinical research is unknown for any medical or surgical specialty beyond snapshots of the broad aims and expenditures of research programs sponsored by federal agencies or the pharmaceutical ... -
Are College Costs Worth it? How Individual Ability, Major Choice, and Debt Affect Optimal Schooling Decisions
(2015-02-16)This paper examines the financial value over the course of a lifetime of pursuing a college degree under a variety of different settings (e.g. major, student loan debt, individual ability). Using a lifecycle simulation ... -
Are Cost Conscious Community Colleges Sacrificing Quality?
(2012-08-01)Compared to their four-year public counterparts, community colleges have been more successful in holding down the costs of educating students but current research, albeit limited, suggests that this may have come at the ... -
Associate Professor Turnover at America’s Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education
(2004-03-15)This paper uses data from the American Association of University Professors annual salary survey to compute continuation rates for associate professors at American colleges and universities during the 1996-97 to 2001-2002 ... -
Attrition in STEM Fields at a Liberal Arts College: The Importance of Grades and Pre-Collegiate Preferences
(2010-03-01)There is widespread concern, both in the private and public sectors, about perceived declines in U.S. college graduates in STEM fields. In our sample, the proportion of science majors has remained steady over the sample ... -
Boundary Spanning in Academia: Antecedents and Near-Term Consequences of Academic Entrepreneurialism
(2013-01-01)Analyzing the pathways of people who earned interdisciplinary research doctorates in the United States in 2010, we generate three main findings while controlling for gender, ethnicity, discipline, and age. First, individuals ... -
Building Knowledge Stocks: The Role of State Higher-Education Policies
(2009-07-20)A variety of studies provide evidence that the stock of college-educated labor has fundamental effects on state and local economies through its association with wages, economic growth, personal incomes, and tax revenues. ... -
Can Behavioral Tools Improve Online Student Outcomes? Experimental Evidence from a Massive Open Online Course
(2015-04-09)Online education is an increasingly popular alternative to traditional classroom- based courses. However, completion rates in online courses are often very low. One explanation for poor performance in online courses is ... -
Can We Test for Bias in Scientific Peer-Review?
(2008-08-24)Science rests upon the reliability of peer review. This paper suggests a way to test for bias. It is able to avoid the fallacy -- one seen in the popular press and the research literature -- that to measure discrimination ... -
Can’t Get Here from There: The Decision to Apply to a Selective Institution
(2007-03-01)Students from low-income families are greatly underrepresented at selective colleges and universities in the United States. In an attempt to increase applications from low-income students, some institutions have developed ... -
Challenges Facing “Pay-What-You-Can-Afford” Tuitions at Public Universities
(2017-01-01)Pay-What-You-Can-Afford (PWYCA) tuition structures are a suggested way to offset declines in state appropriations to public higher education, without limiting access for qualified low-income students. The concept implements ...
