This study makes use of detailed student-level data from eight cohorts of first-year students at Northwestern University to investigate the relative effects of tenure track/tenured versus non-tenure line faculty on student learning. We focus on classes taken during a student's first term at...

The college choice process can be reduced to three questions:1) Where does a student apply?2) Which schools accept the students?3) Which offer of admission does the student accept?This paper addresses question three. Specifically, we offer an econometric analysis of the matriculation decisions...

We review basic facts about higher education finance in the United States and analytical, empirical and policy issues in that realm. Examining trends in higher education finance, we demonstrate growth in the share of revenues provided by government up to about 1980, with a steady decline...