There are two basic explanations of price discrimination in medicine. The traditional explanation is that the American Medical Association enforces sufficient price discipline to apply the theory of a price-discriminating monopolist. Members of the AMA explain price discrimination by the...

The literature on the narrowing of the gender wage gap during the 1980s considers, among other factors, the closing of the male-female differential in post-secondary education. This paper looks specifically at the role played by the dramatic relative increase in women's enrollment in two-year...

Using data for 108 colleges in the California Community College System, this paper poses two questions. First, do California community colleges differ in their missions? Second, if they do, can inter-college differences in missions be explained? We address the first question by developing...