Why does college cost so much? /
College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, New York :
Oxford University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Economics and Finance module. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The landscape of the college cost debate
- Is higher education all that unusual?
- Higher education is a service
- The costs of employing highly educated workers
- Cost and quality in higher education
- The bottom line : why does college cost so much?
- Is higher education increasingly dysfunctional?
- Productivity growth in higher education
- Subsidies and tuition setting
- List-price tuition and institutional grants
- Outside financial aid
- The college affordability crisis
- Federal policy and college tuition
- Financial aid policy
- Rewriting the relationship between states and their public universities
- A few final observations.