Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities? / Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo, George H. Jakubson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ehrenberg, Ronald G.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Rizzo, Michael J.

Jakubson, George H.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9627.

NBER working paper series no. w9627

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2003.

Summary:

Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is occuring, presents estimates of the magnitudes of start-up cost packages being provided to scientists and engineers and then uses panel data to estimate the impact of the growing cost of science on student/faculty ratios, faculty salaries and undergraduate tuition.We find that universities whose own expenditures on research are growing the most rapidly, ceteris paribus, have had the greatest increase in student faculty ratios and, in the private sector, higher tuition increases. Thus, undergraduate students bear part of the cost of increased institutional expenditures on research.

Notes:

Print version record

April 2003.