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as providing better information about the application of economics, exposing students to role models, and updating course …
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between advantaged and disadvantaged students. In contrast to other systems with high tuition fees, the English system is … distinct in that its income-contingent loan system keeps university free at the point of entry, and provides students with …
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faculty and applications from students for fellowships and scholarships. By the 1960s the tables had begun to turn and …
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This paper studies how private equity buyouts create value in higher education, a sector with opaque product quality and intense government subsidy. With novel data on 88 private equity deals involving 994 schools, we show that buyouts lead to higher tuition and per-student debt. Exploiting loan...
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admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high … an interest in their graduates being successful, but little interest in where students come from or where they go after … states in fact gain financially when public universities admit additional out-of-state students. This is because attending a …
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Families who heed the 'experts'' advice and save for their children's college education typically receive less financial aid. The variation in the net price of college functions as a large tax on savings. College financial aid also functions as an income tax. This paper estimates the size and...
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proposed to prevent such shortages is increased federal support for graduate students. Lost in the policy debate, however, has …-producing universities do respond to changes in external support for graduate students by altering the number of students they support on … responses are quite small. On average, an increase of 100 in the number of students supported by external funds is estimated to …
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