The structure and functioning of the market of higher education in the United States possess distinctive if not … defines the quality of higher education and explains its (growing) cost continue to be debated. The Chapter surveys …

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …

I will outline the institutional structure of monitoring and improving the quality of higher education in The …

We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges … better serve their most able students. This stylized model of curricular product differentiation in higher education offers …

I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score … threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual …. Cumulated over fifteen years, the time span of income data for my sample, the net premium of attending the elite university …

outcomes in the context of competition among colleges. When public policies promote “access” to college education, colleges …

We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are …, but is also associated with higher cost of acquiring skill. We consider both a differentiated university system in which … differentiation in higher education can decrease student effort and skill of medium ability types. …