Why does college cost so much?

Why does college cost so much?

by Archibald, Robert B.

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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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  • Full title :Why does college cost so much? / Robert B. Archibald, David H. Feldman.

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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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  • Publication Date:2011.

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  • Description:1 online resource (xii, 289 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780199744503, 0199744505
  • oclc:ocn706017133
  • LC Classification:LB2342
  • Dewey Decimal:378.3/80973

Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction; 1. The Landscape of the College Cost Debate; 2. Is Higher Education All That Unusual?; Part II: Costs; 3. Higher Education Is a Service; 4. The Costs of Employing Highly Educated Workers; 5. Cost and Quality in Higher Education; 6. The Bottom Line: Why Does College Cost So Much?; 7. Is Higher Education Increasingly Dysfunctional?; 8. Productivity Growth in Higher Education; Part III: Tuition and Fees; 9. Subsidies and Tuition Setting; 10. List-Price Tuition and Institutional Grants; 11. Outside Financial Aid; 12. The College Affordability Crisis

Part IV: Policy13. Federal Policy and College Tuition; 14. Financial Aid Policy; 15. Rewriting the Relationship between States and Their Public Universities; 16. A Few Final Observations; Appendix 1 Data on Costs and Prices; Appendix 2 Granger Causality Tests of the Bennett Hypothesis; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

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Subjects

College costs College costs -- United States Education, Higher -- Finance Education, Higher -- Finance. -- United… United States

Writers

Archibald, Robert B. Feldman, David Henry

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