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Making College Worth It: Inequalities In Higher Education And How To Solve Them, Katharine Meyer
Making College Worth It: Inequalities In Higher Education And How To Solve Them, Katharine Meyer
Brookings Scholar Lecture Series
Most students who graduate from college go on to earn higher wages, have more employment stability, and enjoy better health. While posted tuitions are high, a “high price, high aid” approach to college pricing means that the average cost of college has actually declined in recent years. Yet, public confidence in higher education is at an all-time low. What explains this tension? Who gains from going to college and who does not? What can colleges do to change perceptions about the value of a college education? This lecture by Brookings Institution scholar Katharine Meyer highlights trends in college enrollment and …
The Decline Of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, And Intergenerational Mobility, Patrick Bennett, Kai Liu, Kjell Salvanes
The Decline Of Routine Tasks, Education Investments, And Intergenerational Mobility, Patrick Bennett, Kai Liu, Kjell Salvanes
Upjohn Institute Working Papers
How does a large structural change to the labor market affect education investments made at young ages? Exploiting differential exposure to the national decline in routine-task intensity across local labor markets, we show that the secular decline in routine tasks causes major shifts in education investments of high school students, where they invest less in vocational-trades education and increasingly invest in college education. Our results highlight that labor demand changes impact inequality in the next generation. Low-ability and low-SES students are most responsive to task-biased demand changes and, as a result, intergenerational mobility in college education increases.
The Ultimate Tradeoff For Colleges: Academic Quality Or Consumption Amenities, Maura Mullaney
The Ultimate Tradeoff For Colleges: Academic Quality Or Consumption Amenities, Maura Mullaney
Economics Department Student Scholarship
This thesis examines the recent rise in tuition expenses and its relation to college operation costs. My focus delves into the finances of American institutions of higher education to observe where money is actually being spent and to which areas of the college money is being dispersed. It further examines whether students are actually stimulating their own tuition growth through their costly demands on colleges and the luxury services colleges are now offering. In particular, this paper analyzes the current-day trade off for American colleges: spending on consumption amenities as opposed to spending on academic quality. From my research and …
Quantitative Assessment Of The Presence Of A Bubble In The Higher Education Market, Kyle Birnbaum
Quantitative Assessment Of The Presence Of A Bubble In The Higher Education Market, Kyle Birnbaum
Honors Theses
The relationship between the value of a college education and the price of the diploma is explored for exuberance in light of the accelerating growth rate of college tuition. With the Great Recession of 2007 still in on the minds of the American public, bubble formation and the subsequent burst is a concern for future economic stability. Discussion on the presence of a higher education bubble continues to increase however it has yet to be quantitatively assessed. This paper utilizes a modified price-dividend ratio, tailored for higher education, implemented in the econometric model for bubble detection developed by Phillips, Wu …
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 28, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 28, Philip A. Trostel
'It's Not Just the Money' Data Sets
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 26-27, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 26-27, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 19, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 19, Philip A. Trostel
'It's Not Just the Money' Data Sets
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 18, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 18, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 20, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 20, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 34-35, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 34-35, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 22-24, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 22-24, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 6-10, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 6-10, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 12-17, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 12-17, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 1-3, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 1-3, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 4, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 4, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 30, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 30, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 25, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 25, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 31, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 31, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 29, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 29, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 11, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 11, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 44, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 44, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 43, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 43, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 46, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 46, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 36-39, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figures 36-39, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 40, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 40, Philip A. Trostel
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"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 41, Philip A. Trostel
"It's Not Just The Money" Figure 41, Philip A. Trostel
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The Presumption Of Payment, Christopher J. Dellana
The Presumption Of Payment, Christopher J. Dellana
SURGE
At Gettysburg College, students invest a considerable amount of money to make their experiences rewarding for future aspirations. Enrollment at this school, like others, I am sure, seems to breed a special type of student: the students who view themselves as paying and therefore deserving consumers. [excerpt]
How To Predict Success In College, Holland Martini
How To Predict Success In College, Holland Martini
Honors Theses
This paper examines the Union College system for determining the academic quality of its applicants. Currently, Union College uses five criteria: high school GPA; rank; strength of schedule; quality of high school; and SAT/ACT scores, if available. Using data on about 1600 students, I examine the predictive power of these criteria for the performance of a student at Union. As a measure of performance I use cumulative GPA at Union and whether or not the student is still enrolled in Spring 2011. I find that the five criteria predict about 25% of the variation in GPA at Union. With the …
Background Report On College Affordability In Maine, Philip A. Trostel
Background Report On College Affordability In Maine, Philip A. Trostel
Economic Development
The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education gave Maine an “F” grade for affordability of higher education in both Measuring Up 2000 and Measuring Up 2002. In the 2000 report, Maine’s affordability score (54 on a 100-point scale) was 3rd worst in the nation (ahead of RI and NH). In the 2002 report, Maine’s affordability score (56) was in a three-way tie (with NY and VT) for 7th worst in the country (ahead of NH, RI, MT, OR, DE, OH). Although there are legitimate criticisms of the methodology for constructing these scores, it seems pretty clear that college …