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Cornell University 271 Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853-3901
Economics of Higher Education (Econ7470/ILR7470) Spring 2014 (MW 2:55-4:10pm, Ives 109)
This course surveys the empirical literature on the economics of higher education. Students are assumed to have backgrounds in graduate microeconomic theory and econometrics. During each class the professor and the students will discuss several papers in detail. The goal is to provide students with an up to date treatment of where the literature is, to hone their skills as empirical economists and their ability to do independent research, and to suggest “under researched” areas that they may pursue.
All journal articles are available electronically on the Blackboard site or from the Cornell library website. All the articles in Section I should be read before the first class; we will discuss which articles to read in each of the subsequent sections before they occur in the syllabus.
A tentative class time schedule is attached on the last page. Please note that a number of regularly scheduled classes are cancelled and replaced by evening classes on other days (these dates are indicated in bold). Occasional guests will join us by videoconference when we are discussing their work). Course requirements include active participation in class, periodically leading class discussion on specific papers, and at least beginning an empirical research paper.
I. Introduction: Introductory Comments, Higher Education in the United States, Models of University Behavior, Overview of the Course Charles Clotfelter, “The Familiar but Curious Economics of Higher Education”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1999): 3-12
Gordon C. Winston, “Subsidies, Hierarchies and Peers: The Awkward Economics of Higher Education”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1999): 13-36
Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, “The Shaping of Higher Education in the Formative Years in the United States, 1890-1940”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1999): 37-62
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “Adam Smith Goes to College: An Economist Becomes an Academic Administrator”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 1999): 99-116
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “Econometric Studies of Higher Education”, Journal of Econometrics (July/August 2004): 19-37
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market”, Journal of Labor Economics (April 2003): 267-287
Caroline Hoxby, “The Changing Selectivity of American Colleges”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2009): 95-118
John Bound et. al. “Playing the Admissions Game: Student Responses to Increased College Competition”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Fall 2009):119-146
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “American Higher Education in Transition”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 2012): 193-216
II. Access, Enrollment and Completion
A. Does College Quality Matter? Estelle James et. al. “College Quality and Future Earnings: Where Should You Send Your Children to College?” American Economic Review (May 1989): 247-252
Dominic Brewer, Eric Eide and Ronald Ehrenberg, “Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Cross Cohort Evidence on the Effects of College Type on Earnings”, Journal of Human Resources (Winter 1999): 104-123
Eric Eide, Dominic Brewer and Ronald Ehrenberg, “Does it Pay to Attend an Elite Private College? Effects of Undergraduate College Quality on Graduate School Attendance”, Economics of Education Review (October 1998): 371-376
Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger, “Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Unobservables”, Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 2002): 1491-1528
Stacy Dale and Alan Krueger, “Estimating the Return to College Selectivity over the Career Using Administrative Earnings Data”, NBER Working Paper No. 17159 (June 2011)
Mark Hoekstra, “The Effect of Attending a Flagship State University on Earnings: A Discontinuity – Based Approach”, Review of Economics and Statistics 91 (November 2009): 717-724
Rodney Andrews, Jing Li, and Michael Lovenheim, “Quantile Treatment Effects of College Quality on Earnings: Evidence from Administrative Data in Texas” NBER Working Paper 18068 (May 2012)
B. Private vs. Social Returns to Education John Bound et. al., “Trade in University Training: Cross-State Variation in the Production and Use of College- Education Labor”, Journal of Econometrics (July/August 2004): 143-173
Jeffrey Groen, “The Effect of College Location on Migration of College-Educated Labor”, Journal of Econometrics (July/August 2004): 125-142
Enrico Moretti, “Estimating the Social Return to Higher Education: Evidence from Longitudinal and Repeated Cross-Section Data”, Journal of Econometrics (July/August 2004): 175-212
Cecile Rouse, “Do Two-Year Colleges Increase Overall Educational Attainment? Evidence from the States”, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (Fall 1998):593-620
Kasey Buckles. et. al. “The Effects of College Education on Health”, NBER Working Paper No. 19222 (July 2013)
C. Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Ronald Ehrenberg and Donna Rothstein, “Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Confer Unique Advantages on Students? An Initial Analysis in R, Ehrenberg ed. Choices and Consequences: Contemporary Policy Issues in Economics (ILR Press, 1994) Jill Constantine, “The Effect of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Future Wages of Black Students”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review (1995): 531-546
Ronald Ehrenberg, Donna Rothstein and Robert Olsen, “Do Historically Black Colleges and Universities Enhance the Attendance of African American Youths” in Phyllis Moen et. al eds. A Nation Divided (Cornell University Press, 1999)
Roland Fryer and Michael Greenstone, “The Changing Consequences of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (January 2010): 116-148
D. Public Policies and Access - Veterans’, Social Security Programs, EITC Programs Joshua Angrist, “The Effect of Veterans’ Benefits on Education and Earnings”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review (July 1993): 637-652
Thomas Lemieux and David Card. “Education and Earnings and the Canadian G.I. Bill”, Canadian Journal of Economics (May 2001): 312-334
John Bound and Sarah Turner, “Going to War and Going to College: Did World War II and the GI Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans”, Journal of Labor Economics (October 2002): 784-816
Ronald Ehrenberg and Rebecca Luzadis, “The Social Security Student Benefit Program and Family Decisions”, Economics of Education Review (1986 –Issue 2): 119-128
Susan Dynarski, “Does Aid Matter? Measuring the Effect of Student Aid on College Attendance and Completion”, American Economic Review (March 2003): 279-288
Katherine Michelmore, “The Effects of Income Attainment: Evidence from State Earned Income Tax Credit Expansion”
E. Public Policy and Access - Basic Educational Opportunity Grants Thomas Kane, “College Attendance by Blacks Since 1970: The Role of College Costs, Family Background and the Returns to Education”, Journal of Political Economy (October 1994): 878-911
Neil Seftor and Sarah Turner, “Back to School: Federal Student Aid Policy and Adult College Enrollment”, Journal of Human Resources (Spring 2002): 336-352
F. Public Policies and Access – State Programs Susan Dynarski, “Hope For Whom? Financial Aid for the Middle Class and its Impact on College Attendance”, National Tax Journal (September 2000): 629-661
Christopher Cornwell, David Mustard and Deepa Sridhar, “The Enrollment Effects of Merit-Based Financial Aid: Evidence from the Georgia HOPE Program”, Journal of Labor Economics (October 2006): 761-786
Christopher Cornwell, Kyung Hee Lee and David Mustard, “Student Response to Merit Scholarship Retention Rules”, Journal of Human Resources (Fall 2005): 895-917
Liang Zhang and Eric Ness, “Does State Merit-based Aid Stem Brain Drain”, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (June 2010): 143-165
Mary Fitzpatrick and Damon Jones, “Higher Education, Merit-Based Scholarships and Post-Baccalaureate Migration”, NBER Working Paper 18530 (November 2012) Bridget Terry Long, “How Do Financial Aid Policies Affect Colleges? The Institutional Impact of the Georgia Hope Scholarship” Journal of Human Resources (Fall 2004):1045-66
Larry Singell and Joe Stone, “For Whom the Pell Tolls: The Response of University Tuition to Federal Grants-in- Aid”, Economics of Education Review (June 2007): 285-296
Thomas J. Kane, “Evaluating the Impact of the DC Tuition Assistance Program”, Journal of Human Resources (Summer 2007): 555-82
Katharine Abraham and Melissa Clark, “Financial Aid and Students’ College Decisions: Evidence from the District of Columbia Tuition Assistance Grant Program”, Journal of Human Resources (Summer 2006): 578-610
Aimee Chin and Chinhui Juin, “Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants, “Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-State Tuition at State Colleges and Universities”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 15932 (2010)
Benjamin Castleman and Bridget Terry Long, “Looking Beyond Enrollment; The Causal Effects of Need –Based Grants on College Access, Persistence and Graduation’ NBER Working Paper 19306 (August 2013)
G. Public Policy and Access – Information Eric Bettinger et al., “The Role of Application Assistance and Information on College Decisions; Results from the H&R Block FAFSA Experiment”, Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 2012): 1205-42
Scott Carrell and Bruce Sacerdote, “Late Interventions Matter Too: The Case of College Coaching New Hampshire”, NBER Working Paper 19031 (May 2013)
Caroline Hoxby and Christopher Avery, “The Missing One-Offs: The Hidden Supply of High-Achieving Low- Income Students”, NBER Working Paper 18586 (December 2012)
Caroline Hoxby and Sarah Turner, “Expanding College Opportunities for High-Achieving Low-Income Students”, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research Working Paper 12-014 (2012)
Amanda Pallais, “Small Differences that Matter: Mistakes in Applying to College”, NBER Working Paper 19480 (September 2013)
Philip Oreopoulos and Ryan Dunn, “Information and College Access: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment”, NBER Working Paper 18551 (November 2012)
H. Where Do They Go: Income, Wealth, State Admission Policies Eleanor Dillon and Jeffrey Smith, “The Determinants of Mismatch Between Students and Colleges”, NBER Working Paper 19286 (August 2013)
Michael Lovenheim and C. Lockwood Reynolds, “The Effect of Housing Wealth on College Choice: Evidence From the Housing Boom”, Journal of Human Resources (Winter 2013):1-36
Peter Arcidiacono et. al. “Affirmative Action and University Fit: Evidence From Proposition 209”, NBER Working Paper 18523 (November 2012)
Peter Arcidiacono et. al. “University Differences in the Graduation of Minorities in STEM Fields: Evidence From California”, NBER Working Paper 18799 (February 2013) Kalena Cortes, “Do Bans on Affirmative Action Hurt Minority Students? Evidence from the Texas Top 10% Plan”, Economics of Education Review (December 2010): 1110-1124
I. Institutional Policies: Access, Persistence and Occupational Choice Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel S. Sherman, “Optimal Financial Aid Policies for a Selective University”, Journal of Human Resources (Spring 1984): 202-230
Wilbert Van Der Klaauw, “Estimating the Effect of Financial Aid Offers on College Enrollment: A Regression Discontinuity Approach”, International Economic Review (November 2002): 1249-1287
Peter Nurnberg, Morton Schapiro and David Zimmerman, “Students Choosing Colleges: Understanding the Matriculation Decision at a Highly Selective Private Institution”, Economics of Education Review (February 2012): 1-8
David Linsenmeier, “Financial Aid Packages and College Enrollment Decisions: An Econometric Case Study”, Review of Economics and Stastistics (February 2006): 126-145
Jesse Rothstein and Cecilia Rouse, “Constrained After College: Student Loans and Early Career Occupational Choices”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13117 (May 2007)
Erica Field, “Educational Debt Burden and Career Choice: Evidence from a Financial Aid Experiment at NYU Law School”, American Economic Journal Applied Economics 1 (January 2009): 1-21
Randall Rebick, “The Impact of College Course Offerings on the Supply of Academically Talented Public School Teachers”, Journal of Econometrics (July 2004): 377-404
III. Academic Labor Market Issues
A. The Supply of New PhDs: Times to Degree and Completion Rates. Impacts of Federal Financial Aid Policies, Crowding Out of Males and American Citizens
Richard Freeman et. al. “Supporting the Best and Brightest in Science and Engineering: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships”, National Bureau of Economic Research Science and Engineering Workforce Project Working Paper (March 2006) (www.nber.org/~sewp/references.html )
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Daniel I. Rees and Dominic J. Brewer, “Institutional Responses to Increased External Support for Graduate Students”, Review of Economics and Statistics (November 1993): 671-682
Paula England et. al. “Why Are Some Academic Fields Tipping Towards Female? The Sex Composition of U.S Fields of Doctoral Degree Recipients, 1971-2002”, Sociology of Education (January 2007): 23-42
George Borjas, “Do Foreign Students Crowd Out Native Students from Graduate Programs?” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 10349 (March 2004) (published in Paula Stephan and Ronald Ehrenberg eds. Science and the University (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
Gregory Attiyeh and Richard Attiyeh, “Testing for Bias in Graduate School Admissions”, Journal of Human Resources (Summer 1997): 524-548
Jeffrey A. Groen, Matthew P. Nagowski and Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “PhD Attainment of Graduates of Selective Private Academic Institutions”, Education Finance and Policy (Winter 2007): 100-110 Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Pangiotis Mavros, “Do Doctoral Students” Financial Support Patterns Affect Their Times to Degree and Completion Rates?” Journal of Human Resources (Summer 1995): 581-609
Jeffrey Groen, George Jakubson, Ronald Ehrenberg, Scott Condie and Albert Liu, “Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education”, Economics of Education Review (April 2008): 111-124
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Jeffrey A Groen, Eric So and Joseph Price, “Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students’ Attrition and Graduation Probabilities”, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (June 2007): 134-150
Jeffrey A Groen, “Time to Doctorate and Labor Demand for New PhD Recipients”, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Working Paper 146 (December 2012)
B. Faculty Salaries: Productivity, Monopsony Power, Gender Differentials,, Turnover, Tenure Probabilities Daniel Hamermesh et. al. “Scholarship, Citations and Salaries: Economic Rewards in Economics”, Southern Economic Journal (October 1982): 472-481
Daniel Hamermesh and Amy Parker, “Beauty in the Classroom: Instructor’s Pulchritude and Putative Pedagogical Productivity”, Economics of Education Review (August 2005): 369-376
Daniel Hamermesh and Gerard Pfann, “Reputation and Earnings: The Role of Quality and Quantity in Academe”, Economic Inquiry (January2012): 1-16
Glenn Ellison. “How Does the Market Use Citations Data? The Hirsch Index in Economics”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (July 2013): 63-90
Kevin Hallock, “Seniority and Monopsony in the Academic Labor Market”, American Economic Review (June 1995): 654-657
Emily Hoffman, “Faculty Salaries: Is There Discrimination by Sex, Race and Discipline?” American Economic Review (March 1976): 196-198
Ronald Ehrenberg, Hirschel Kasper and Daniel Rees, “Faculty Turnover in American Colleges and Universities”, Economics of Education Review (1991, no. 2): 99-110
Ronald Ehrenberg, Paul Pieper and Rachel Willis, “Do Economics Departments with Lower Tenure Probabilities Pay Higher Faculty Salaries”, Review of Economics and Statistics (November 1998): 503-512
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Jesenka Mrdjenovic, and Marquise McGraw, “Why Do Field Differences in Salaries Vary Across Universities”, Economics of Education Review (June 2006): 241-248
C. Faculty Productivity Over the Life Cycle Sharon Levin and Paula Stephan, “Research Productivity Over the Life Cycle: Evidence for Academic Scientists”, American Economic Review (March 1991): 114-132
Sharon Oster and Daniel Hamermesh, “Aging and Productivity Among Economists”, Review of Economics and Statistics (February 1998): 154-156
Daniel Hamermesh, “Six Decades of Top Economics Publishing: Who and How”, Journal of Economic Literature (March 2013): 162-172 Peter Crosta and Iris Packman, “Faculty Productivity in Supervising Doctoral Students’ Dissertations at Cornell University”, Economics of Education Review (February 2005): 55-65
D. Faculty and Staff Retirement Behavior, the Tenure System and the End of Mandatory Retirement Edward Lazear. “Why Is There Mandatory Retirement”, Journal of Political Economy (December 1979): 1261- 1284
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “No Longer Forced Out”, Academe (May/June 1999): 34-39
Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, “Did the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement Affect Faculty Retirement”, American Economic Review (September 2002): 957-980
John Pencavel, “The Response of Employees to Severance Incentives: The University of California Faculty”, Journal of Human Resources (Winter 2001): 58-84
Sharon Weinberg and Marc Scott, “The Impact of Uncapping Mandatory Retirement on Postsecondary Institutions”, Educational Researcher (August/September 2013): 338-348
Kenneth Whelan, Ronald Ehrenberg, Kevin Hallock and Ronald Seeber, “Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program”, NBER Working Paper 17538 (October 2011) - a slightly different version appeared in 2012 in Research in Labor Economics
Colleen Flaherty Manchester et. al. “Is the Clock Still Ticking? An Evaluation of the Consequences of Stopping the Tenure Clock”, Industrial and Labor Relations Review (January 2013): 3-31
Gopi Shah et. al. “Retirement Plan Type and Employee Mobility: The Role of Selection and Incentive Effects”, NBER Working Paper 18902 (March 2013)
E. Changing Faculty Types: Do They Matter?2 Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang, “Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter”, Journal of Human Resources (Summer 2005): 647-659
Florian Hoffman and Phillip Oreopoulos, Professor Qualities and Student Achievement”, Review of Economics and Statistics (February 2009): 83-92
Eric Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long, “Does Cheaper Mean Better? The Impact of Using Adjunct Instructors on Student Outcomes”, Review of Economics and Statistics (August 2010): 598-613
Liang Zhang and Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “Faculty Employment and R&D Expenditures at Research Universities”, Economics of Education Review (June 2010): 329-337
David Figlio, Morton Schapiro, and Kevin Soter, “Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?” NBER Working Paper, 19406 (September 2013)
IV. Assorted Higher Education Issues
A. For Profit Higher Education Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Latika Chaudhary, “The Labor Market Returns to a For-Profit Education”, NBER Working Paper 18343 (August 2012) Kevin Lang and Russell Weinstein, The Wage Effects of Not-for-profit and For-profit certifications: Better Data, Somewhat Different Results”, NBER Working Paper 19135 (June 2013)
Stephanie Riegg Cellini and Claudia Goldin, “Does Federal Student Aid Raise Tuition? New Evidence on For- Profit Colleges”, NBER Working Paper 17827 (February 2012)
David Deming, Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, “The For-Profit Postsecondary School Sector: Nimble Critters or Agile Predators”, Journal of Economic Perspectives (Winter 2012):139-164
B. Does Prestige Matter and How to Influence It James Monks and Ronald Ehrenberg, “The Impact of USNWR College Rankings on Admissions Outcomes and Pricing Decisions at Selective Private Institutions”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No.7227 (1999) ) (shorter version published in Change Magazine Nov/Dec 1999)
Amanda Griffith and Kevin Rask, “The Influence of USNWR Collegiate Rankings on the Matriculation of High- Ability Students: 1995-2004”, Economics of Education Review (April 2007): 244-255
Ginger Zhe Jin and Alex Whalley, “The Power of Attention: Do Rankings Affect the Financial Resources of Public Colleges?” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 12941 (2007)*
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Peter Hurst, “The 1995 Ratings of Doctoral Programs: A Hedonic Model”, Economics of Education Review (April 1998): 137-148
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Liang Zhang and Jared Levin, “Crafting a Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Low Income Students”, Review of Higher Education (Winter 2006): 195-214
C. Influencing Persistence and Achievement: Role Models, Peer Effects, Study Time and Employment While Enrolled Eric Bettinger and Bridget Terry Long, “Do Faculty Serve as Role Models? The Impact of Instructor Gender on Female Students”, American Economic Review (May 2005): 152-157
Florian Hoffman and Philip Oreopoulos, “A Professor Like Me: The Influence of Instructor Gender on College Achievement”, Journal of Human Resources 44 (Spring 2009): 479-494
Christina Hilmer and Michael Hilmer, “Women Helping Women, Men Helping Women? Same-Gender Mentoring, Initial Job Placements and Early Career Publishing Success for Economics PhDs”, American Economic Review (May 2007): 422-26
Scott Carrell, Marianne Page and James West, “Sex and Science: How Professor Gender Perpetuates the Gender Gap, Quarterly Journal of Economics (August 2010): 1101-1144
Amanda Griffith, “The Role of Peers and Grades in Determining Major Persistence in the Sciences”, Economics of Education Review 29 (December 2010): 911-922
Ben Ost, “The Role of Peers and Grades in Determining Major Persistence in the Sciences”, Economics of Education Review 29 (December 2010): 923-934
Joshua Price, “The Effects of Instructor Race and Gender on Student Persistence in STEM Fields”, Economics of Education Review 29 (December 2010) 901-910 Robert Fairlie et. al. “A Community College Instructor Like Me: Race and Ethnic Interactions in the Classroom”, NBER Working Paper 17381 (September 2011)
Kevin Rask and Jill Tiefenthaler, “The Role of Grade Sensitivity in Explaining the Gender Imbalance in Undergraduate Economics Programs”, Economics of Education Review (December 2008): 676-687
George Borjas, “Foreign Born Teaching Assistants and the Academic Performance of Undergraduates”, American Economic Review (May 2000):355-359
Belton Fleisher et. al. “Foreign GTAs Can Be Effective Teachers of Economics”, Journal of Economics Education (December 2005): 295-325
Bruce Sacerdote, “Peer Effects with Random Assignment: Results for Dartmouth Roommates”, Quarterly Journal of Economics (May 2001): 681-704
David Zimmerman, “Peer Effects in Academic Outcomes: Evidence from a Natural Experiment”, Review of Economics and Statistics (February 2003): 9-23
Scott Carrell et. al. “Peer Effects in Academic Cheating”, Journal of Human Resources (Winter 2008): 173-207
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel R. Sherman, “Employment While in College, Academic Achievement and Post College Outcomes: A Summary of Results”, Journal of Human Resources (Winter 1987): 1-23
Jeffrey S. Desimone, “The Impact of Employment During School on College Student Academic Performance”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 14006 (2008)
Todd Stinebrickner and Ralph Stinebrickner, “The Causal Effect of Studying on Academic Performance”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13341 (2007) (published in the B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy V8, no.1, 2008)
Phillip Babcock and Mindy Marks, “The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence From Half a Century of Time Use Data”, Review of Economics and Statistics (May 2011): 468-478
D. Endowments and Annual Giving Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L. Smith, “The Sources and Uses of Annual Giving at Selective Private Research Universities”, Economics of Education Review (June 2003): 223-235
Charles Clotfelter, “Alumni Giving to Elite Private Colleges and Universities”, Economics of Education Review (April 2003): 109-120
Harvey Rosen and Jonathan Meier “Altruism and the Child-Cycle of Alumni Donations”, American Economic Journal- Economic Policy 1 (February 2009): 258-286
Harvey Rosen and Jonathan Meier, “The Impact of Athletic Performance on Alumni Giving: Analysis of Micro Data”, Economics of Education Review 28 (June 2009): 287-294
Jonathan Meer, “Brother Can You Spare Me a Dime: Peer Pressure in Charitable Solicitations”, Journal of Public Economics (August 2011): 926-941
Jonathan Meer, “The Habit of Giving”, Economic Inquiry (October 2013):2002-2017 Jonathan Meer and Harvey Rosen, “Does Generosity Beget Generosity? Alumni Giving and Undergraduate Financial Aid”, NBER Working Paper 17861 (February 2012)
Jeffrey Brown et al “The Supply of and Demand for Charitable Deductions to Higher Education”, NBER Working Paper 18389 (September 2012)
Shawn Kantor and Alexander Whaley, “Do Universities Generate Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Endowment Shocks”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper WP15299 (August 2009)
Jeffrey Brown et. al., “How University Endowments Response to Financial Market Shocks: Evidence and Implications”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper WP15861 (April 2010)
Keith Brown and Christian Tu, “The Interaction of Spending Policies, Asset Allocation Strategies and Investment Performance at University Endowment Funds”, NBER Working Paper 19517 (October 2013)
Ross Milton and Ronald Ehrenberg, “Decomposing the Dispersion of Higher Education Endowments”, Cornell Higher Education Research Institute WP 153 (July 2013)
E. Public Higher Education/Higher Education as a System Jeffrey Groen and Michelle White, “In-state vs. Out-of State Students: The Divergence of Interests Between Public Universities and State Governments”, Journal of Public Economics (August 2004): 1793-1814
Robert Lowry, “The Effects of State Political Interests and Campus Outputs on Public University Revenues”, Economics of Education Review (April 2001):105-119
Michael Rizzo and Ronald G. Ehrenberg, “Resident and Nonresident Tuition and Enrollment at Flagship State Universities” in Caroline Hoxby ed. College Choices: The Economics of Where to Go and How to Pay for It (University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L, Smith, “Analyzing the Success of Transitions from 2-Year to 4-Year Institutions within a State” Economics of Education Review (February 2004): 11-28
Jonathan Sandy et. al. “Alternative Paths to College Completion: Effect of Attending a 2-Year School on the Probability of Completing a 4-Year Degree”, Economics of Education Review (October 2006): 436-471
Michael Hilmer, “Does Community College Attendance Provide a Strategic Path to Higher Quality Education”, Economics of Education Review (February 1997): 59-68
Bridget Terry Long, “Do Community Colleges Provide a Viable Pathway to a Baccalaureate Degree?” Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (2009): 30-53
John Cheslock, “Differences Between Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education in the Enrollment of Transfer Students”, Economics of Education Review (May 2005): 263-274
Stephanie Riegg Cellini, “Crowded Colleges and College Crowd Out: The Impact of Public Subsidies on the Two- Year College Market”, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 1 (August 2009): 1-30
Kevin M. Stange, “Differential Pricing in Undergraduate Education: Effects on Degree Production By Field”, NBER Working Paper 19183 (June 2013)
F. Science and the University Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael Rizzo and George Jakubson, “Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 9627 (2003) (published in Paula Stephan and Ronald Ehrenberg eds. Science and the University (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)
John M. de Figueiredo and Brian Silverman, “Academic Earmarks and the Return to Lobbying”, Journal of Law and Economics (October 2006): 597-625
Abigail Payne, “The Effects of Congressional Appropriations Committee Membership on the Distribution of Federal Research Funding to Universities”, Economic Inquiry (April 2003): 323-345
Paula Stephan et. al. “Who’s Patenting in the University? Evidence from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients”, Economics of Innovation and New Technology (January/March 2007): 71-99
Marie Thursby et. al. “Are There Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle View”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (August 2007): 577-598
Carolin Haeussler et. al. “Specific and General Information Sharing Among Academic Scientists”, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper WP 15315 (September 2009)
Pierre Axoulay, Joshua Zivin and Gustavo Manso, “Incentives and Creativity: Evidence from the Academic Life Sciences”, Rand Journal of Economics (Fall 2011): 527-554
G. Higher Education Production Functions: Persistence and Completion Rates Hans De Groot et. al. “The Cost Structure of American Research Universities”, Review of Economics and Statistics (August 1991): 424-431
Gary Blose, John Porter and Edward Kokkelenberg, “The Effects of Institutional Funding Cuts on Baccalaureate Graduation Rates in Public Higher Education” in Ronald G. Ehrenberg ed. What’s Happening to Public Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
Douglas Webber and Ronald Ehrenberg, “Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education”, Economics of Education Review (December 2010):947-958
Douglas Webber, “Expenditures and Postsecondary Graduation: An Investigation Using Individual Level Data from the State of Ohio”, Economics of Education Review (October 2012): 615-618
John Bound and Sarah Turner, “Cohort Crowding: How Resources Affect Collegiate Attainment”, Journal of Public Economics (June 2007): 877-899
John Bound et. al. “Why Have College Completion Rates Declined: An Analysis of Changing Student Preparation and Collegiate Resources”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (July 2010): 1-31
John Bound et. al., “Increasing Time to Baccalaureate Degree in the United States”, Education Finance and Policy (Fall 2012):
H. Athletics Dimitry Kotlyraenko and Ronald Ehrenberg, “Ivy League Athletic Performance; Do Brains Win?” Journal of Sports Economics (May 2000): 139-150 Franklin Mixon, “Athletics vs, Academics? Rejoining the Evidence from SAT Scores”, Education Economics (December 1995): 277-83
Deborah Anderson, John Cheslock and Ronald Ehrenberg, “Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Determinants of Title IX Compliance”, Journal of Higher Education (March/April 2006): 225-250
Michael Anderson, “The Benefits of College Athletic Success: An Application of the Propensity Score Design with Instrumental Variables”, NBER Working Paper 18196 (June 2012)
I. Presidents and Trustees
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, John Cheslock, and Julia Epifantseva, “Paying Our Presidents: What Do Trustees Value?” Review of Higher Education (Fall 2001): 15-37
James Monks, “Public versus Private University Presidents Pay Levels and Structures”, Economics of Education Review (June 2007): 338-348
Robin Bartlet and Olga Sorokina, “Determinants of Presidential Pay at National Liberal Arts Institutions”, Review of Higher Education (Fall 2005): 53-70
Ronald G. Ehrenberg et. al., “Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines: Do Trustees and Administrators Matter?”, Economics of Education Review (February 2012): 9-18
Amanda Goodall, “Highly Cited Leaders and the Performance of Research Universities”, Research Policy (September 2009): 1079-1092
John McCormack, Carol Propper and Sarah Smith, “Herding Cats? Management and University Performance” (mimeo, March 2013)
Economics of Higher Education- Spring 2014 Tentative Class Schedule
Wed. Jan 22 Introduction (I) ------Mon. Jan 27 Does College Quality Matter (IIA) Wed Jan 29Double Class Private vs Social Returns (IIB)/HBCUs (IIC) ------Mon. Feb 3 Public Policy and Access- Fed Programs (IID, IIE) Wed. Feb 5 No Class ------Mon. Feb 10 Public Policies and Access- State Programs (IIF)- Maria Fitzpatrick © Wed. Feb 12 Public Policies and Access- Information (IIG)- Sarah Turner © ------Mon. Feb 17No Class Feb Break Wed. Feb 19 Public Policies and Access- Where Do They Go (IIH) ------Mon. Feb 24 Institutional Policies (III) Wed. Feb 26 Supply of New PhDs (IIIA) ------Mon. Mar 3 Supply of New PhDs (IIIA) Jeff Groen © Wed. Mar 5 For Profit Higher Education (IVA) Stephanie Cellini © ------Mon. Mar 10 Faculty Salaries (IIIB) Wed. Mar 12 Faculty Productivity Over the Life Cycle Dan Hamermesh © ------Mon. Mar 17 Faculty and Staff Retirement Behavior (IIID) Wed. Mar 19 Faculty and Staff Retirement Behavior (IIID) Coleen Flaherty Manchester © ------Mon. Mar 24 No Class Wed. Mar 26 Endowments and Annual Giving (IVD) ------Mon. Mar 31No Class April Break Wed. Apr 2 No Class April Break ------Mon. Apr 7 Does Prestige Matter (IVB) Alex Whalley © Wed. Apr 9 Influencing Persistence (IVC) Ben Ost © ------Mon. Apr14 Endowments and Annual Giving (IVD)- Jonathan Meer (c)(may be live on 3/26) Wed. Apr16 Double Class Changing Faculty Types (IIIE) and Public Higher Education (IVE)- David Figlio © ------Mon. Apr21 Public Higher Education (IVE) Kevin Stange © Wed. Apr23 Science (IVF) ------Mon. Apr28 Higher Education Production Functions (IVG) Doug Webber © Wed. Apr30 Double Class Presidents and Trustees (IVI) ------Mon. May 5 No Class SUNY Board Wed. May 7 No Class SUNY Board © confirmed