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Doing More with Less

Making Colleges Work Better

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Editors:
  1. Joshua C. Hall

    1. Dept. Economics, Beloit College, Beloit, USA

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  • Assembles contributions from prominent economists studying higher education

  • Identifies reforms in higher education that are likely to be successful in cutting costs or improving productivity and those which are detrimental

  • Works within the binding constraint of the existing structure of federal and state financing in higher education

  • Focuses on higher education in the United States but with applications that will be of interest globally

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Evaluating and Debating Causes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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  3. Introduction: The American Higher Education Problem

    1. Introduction: The American Higher Education Problem

      • Richard Vedder
      Pages 1-11

  4. Evaluating and Debating Causes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Financial Aid in Theory and Practice

      • Andrew Gillen
      Pages 15-51

    3. Price Discrimination and Rising Costs: Is There Any Relationship?

      • Gregory Randolph
      Pages 53-69

    4. Cost Inflation in Intercollegiate Athletics: And Some Modest Proposals for Controlling It

      • William Shughart II
      Pages 71-93

    5. The Academics–Athletics Trade-Off: Universities and Intercollegiate Athletics

      • Matthew Denhart, Robert Villwock, Richard Vedder
      Pages 95-136

  5. Is For-Profit Education the Solution?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. For-Profit Education in the USA: A Primer

      • James Coleman, Richard Vedder
      Pages 139-163

    3. A Market-Funded College’s Approach to Student Learning and Job Placement: An Insider’s View

      • John Woods
      Pages 165-176

    4. The Economics of For-Profit Education

      • Tyler Cowen, Sam Papenfuss
      Pages 177-193

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 281-290
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About this book

This volume contains a collection of papers by economists which examine the various strategies for cutting costs and improving productivity in higher education in the United States. The dramatic increase in the cost of attending most colleges and universities in recent years has led to increasing concerns regarding college affordability. In addition, with nearly 35 percent of full-time college students failing to receive a bachelor’s degree within six years of enrolling in an institution of higher education, the productivity of colleges and universities has also been called into question. Systematic reform of higher education has intensified as a result of the large amount of public and private dollars flowing into it. The chapters in this volume, while recognizing it may be the primary source of the problem, also understand that the political forces behind the subsidization of higher education are unlikely to wane. The contributors examine several areas of possible reform from an economic perspective, including financial aid systems, athletics, and the organization of universities and university systems with an emphasis on identifying the types of reforms that are most likely to result in improvements as well as those that may make things worse. This volume will be of interest to economists, education researchers and policymakers concerned with education reform.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dept. Economics, Beloit College, Beloit, USA

    Joshua C. Hall

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Doing More with Less

  • Book Subtitle: Making Colleges Work Better

  • Editors: Joshua C. Hall

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5960-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York 2010

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5959-1Published: 13 September 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9412-7Published: 20 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-5960-7Published: 18 August 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 290

  • Topics: Economic Policy, Educational Policy and Politics, Higher Education

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