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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archibald, Robert B., 1946-

Contributor:

Feldman, David H. (David Hall), 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

College costs--United States.

College costs.

Education, Higher--United States--Finance.

Education, Higher.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (302 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-977999-6

0-19-021410-4

9786613009661

1-283-00966-8

0-19-978132-X

OCLC:

706017133