High student dropout rates are a continuing concern within higher education and have received considerable attention for decades. Despite numerous proposed interventions, it remains unclear which interventions are effective, and what the pivotal active ingredients are. This paper systematically...

We estimate a variety of models to evaluate costs in US higher education institutions. A novel feature of our approach involves the estimation of latent class and random parameter stochastic frontier models of the multiproduct cost function. This allows us fully to accommodate both the...

Hohe Standards in Forschung und Lehre zu sichern, ist die vornehmste Aufgabe der Hochschulen. Die Sicherung der Qualität erfolgt nicht mehr nur mit dem traditionellen Instrument einer verantwortlichen Berufungspolitik von Professoren. Zunehmend werden neue Instrumentarien entwickelt, die...