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Estimating The Short-Run Supply Curve Of Higher Education, Carter Davis, Taylor Nadauld May 2015

Estimating The Short-Run Supply Curve Of Higher Education, Carter Davis, Taylor Nadauld

Journal of Undergraduate Research

The original project that I set out to research with this ORCA grant was to investigate how the real estate bubble spread leading up to the financial crisis, using an incredible 90 gigabyte dataset of mortgage information. Two unfortunate events occurred during the course of this project: the external hard drive that stored the data was lost and a programming error on my part destroyed the data on the BYU supercomputer. Dr. Nadauld and I were devastated. Instead of investigating how bubbles spread, I set out to estimate the slope of the supply curve of higher education. Dr. Nadauld and …