The Economics of Higher Education the State Aid Dilemma
Author : Douglas Gray Montgomery
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Page : 275 pages
File Size : 30,95 MB
Release : 1969
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The Economics of Higher Education
Author : Department of the Treasury
Publisher :
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2012
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Book Description
This report discusses the current state of higher education, with a brief high-level overview of the market and a more detailed discussion and analysis of the financial aid system. It also discusses the important changes President Obama has made to make higher education more accessible and affordable. The key findings are: (1) The economic returns to higher education remain high and provide a pathway for individual economic mobility; (2) Public colleges educate the vast majority of the nation's students enrolled in institutions of higher education, but private, for-profit schools are growing the most rapidly; (3) Historically, society provided a significant subsidy to young people through the widespread availability of inexpensive public higher education. However, over the past several decades, there has been a substantial shift in the overall funding of higher education from state assistance, in the forms of grants and subsidies, to increased tuition borne by students; (4) The Obama Administration has offset some of those increased costs with recent increases in educational support through increased Pell grants and the American Opportunity Tax Credit; and (5) The combination of decreased state subsidies for higher education and increased federal spending on financial aid represents a shift in the responsibility for paying for college toward a greater onus on students, families, and the federal government. This report is divided into four sections. The first section provides a broad overview of the basic characteristics of the market for higher education. The report then discusses the impact of higher education on individual earnings and economic mobility. The next section focuses on cost and access to higher education, including the difference between posted and net tuition. The final section considers the financial aid system and other federal policies related to higher education. The following are appended: (1) Expected Family Contributions; and (2) Distribution of Campus-Based Aid to Schools.
The Economics and Financing of Higher Education in the United States
Author : United States. Congress. Economic Joint Committee
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 31,25 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Federal aid to higher education
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The Economics of Higher Education in the United States
Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1623497442
Book Description
In The Economics of Higher Education in the United States, editors Thomas Adam and A. Burcu Bayram have assembled five essays, adapted from the fifty-second annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lecture Series, that focus on the increasing cost of college—a topic that causes great anxiety among students, parents, faculty, administrators, legislators, and taxpayers. Essays focus on the funding of colleges, the funding of professional schools, and the provision of scholarships and student loans for undergraduate students to reveal the impact of money on the structure of institutions of higher education and the organization of colleges. The cost of higher education has risen dramatically as both states and the federal government have significantly lowered their contributions to offset that cost. With rising tuition and cost of living—on top of a growing student population—too many graduates find themselves in financial trouble after earning their undergraduate degree. Mounting student debt prevents an increasing number of young professionals from embarking on the very life for which their education was supposed to prepare them. How have we come from a political environment in which higher education was perceived as a public good, normally free to the user, to an environment in which higher education is seen as a privilege subject primarily to market forces? The Economics of Higher Education in the United States offers a desperately needed analysis in an attempt to understand and tackle this looming problem.
Economics of Higher Education
Author : Robert K. Toutkoushian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9401775060
Book Description
This book examines the many ways in which economic concepts, theories and models can be used to examine issues in higher education. The topics explored in the book include how students make college-going decisions, the payoffs to students and society from going to college, markets for higher education services, demand and supply in markets for higher education, why and how state and federal governments intervene in higher education markets, college and university revenues and expenditures, how institutions use net-pricing strategies and non-price product-differentiation strategies to pursue their goals and to compete in higher education markets, as well as issues related to faculty labor markets. The book is written for both economists and non-economists who study higher education issues and provides readers with background information and thorough explanations and illustrations of key economic concepts. In addition to reviewing the contributions economists have made to the study of higher education, it also examines recent research in each of the major topical areas. The book is policy-focused and each chapter analyses how contemporary higher education policies affect the behaviour of students, faculty and/or institutions of higher education. "Toutkoushian and Paulsen attempted a daunting task: to write a book on the economics of higher education for non-economists that is also useful to economists. A book that could be used for reference and as a textbook for higher education classes in economics, finance, and policy. They accomplish this tough balancing act with stunning success in a large volume that will serve as the go-to place for anyone interested in the history and current thinking on the economics of higher education.” William E. Becker, Jr., Professor Emeritus of Economics, Indiana University
Economics of Higher Education
Author : Selma J. Mushkin
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Page : 436 pages
File Size : 18,43 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Education, Higher
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Book Description
Composite work in economic research on higher education in the USA - covers labour demand and supply of professional workers and university graduates, financing educational investment, etc. References and statistical tables.
Economics Of Higher Education
Author : Selma J Mushkin
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,2 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
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ISBN : 9781021440211
Book Description
This book delves into the economic factors that affect higher education, including financing, tuition, and student aid. It explores the impact of government policies and private markets on universities and colleges, as well as the labor market for college graduates. Mushkin provides insights into the challenges facing higher education and the potential solutions to these issues. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Saving State U
Author : Nancy Folbre
Publisher : New Press, The
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 25,61 MB
Release : 2010-02-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 1595585311
Book Description
Once upon a time, students who were willing and able to work hard could obtain an affordable, high-quality education at a public university. Those times are gone. Intensified admissions competition coupled with opposition to public spending has scorched every campus. Budget cuts, tuition hikes, and debt burdens are undermining the best path to upward mobility that this country ever built. But despite all of this, Americans still embrace ideals of equal opportunity and know that higher education represents a public good. Students, faculty, staff, and advocates are beginning to build political coalitions and develop new strategies to improve access, enhance quality, and simplify financial aid. This book celebrates and will fortify their efforts. In Saving State U, economist Nancy Folbre brings the national debates of education experts down to the level of trying to teach—and trying to learn—at major state universities whose budgets have repeatedly been slashed, restored, and then slashed again. Here is a brilliant firsthand account of the stakes involved, the politics, and the key debates raging through public campuses today. In a passionate, accessible voice, Folbre also offers a sobering vision of the many possible futures of public higher education and their links to the fate of our democracy while looking at the practical ways in which change is now possible.
Economics of Higher Education
Author : United States. Education Office
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Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1962
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The Economics of Higher Education
Author : C. R. Belfield
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
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Book Description
Part 1 Economic benefits of higher education: the economic returns to lifelong learning in OECD countries, Elchanan Cohn and John T. Addison; changes in the rate of return to education in Sweden, Marten O. Palme and Robert E. Wright; the economic returns to college major, quality and performance - a multilevel analysis of recent graduates, Russell W. Rumberger and Scott L. Thomas; does it pay to attend an elite private college? cross-cohort evidence on the effects of college type on earnings, Dominic J. Brewer; the gender earnings gap among college-educated workers, Linda Datcher Loury; higher education as a filter, Kenneth J. Arrow; degrees matter - new evidence on sheepskin effects in the returns to education, David A. Jaeger and Marianne E. Page; health, wealth and happiness - why pursue a higher education?, Joop Hartog and Hessel Oosterbeek; R & D-based models of economic growth, Charles I. Jones; universities as a source of commercial technology - a detailed analysis of university patenting, 1965-1988, Rebecca Henderson, Adam B. Jaffe and Manuel Trajtenberg; public spending on higher education in developing countries - too much or too little?, Nancy Birdsall. Part 2 Student demand and student preferences: student price response in higher education - an update to Leslie and Brinkman, Donald E. Heller; college entry by blacks since 1970 - the role of college costs, family background and the returns to education, Thomas J. Kane. Part 3 Technology and production of higher education: the analytics of the pricing of higher education and other services in which the customers are inputs, Michael Rothschild and Lawrence J. White; evaluating educational inputs in undergraduate education, Robert C. Dolan et al; the determinants of undergraduate grade point average - the relative importance of family background, high school resources and peer group effects, Julian R. Betts and Darlene Morell; determinants of college completion - school quality of stud.
