"This book provides a historical explanation for cost escalation in American higher education. It also explains why the wealth--the financial capital--of colleges and universities has grown enormously, even faster, over the same period."

Die Studierneigung ist durch die Gebühren nicht zurückgegangen, auch nicht bei Studienberechtigten aus nichtakademischem Elternhaus, wie Analysen zeigen. Es gibt Hinweise darauf, dass Studienberechtigte die höheren Kosten mit einer größeren Wertschätzung eines Studiums für den späteren...

The education export industry is an important and growing sector of the economy. This study examines the foreign exchange contribution of international students (the largest component of this sector) to the New Zealand economy and provides a base from which work can be extended to assess the...

Unique new data from a college with a mandatory work-study program are used to examine the relationship between working during school and academic performance. Particular attention is paid to the importance of biases that are potentially present because the number of hours that are worked is...

This paper provides evidence of heterogeneity in the returns to higher education in the UK. Attending the most prestigious universities leads to a wage premium of up to 6% for males. The rise in participation in higher education also led to a greater sorting of students and an increase in the...

The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from...

In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and attempting to control for...