Productivity in Higher Education

Caroline M. Hoxby, Kevin Stange (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

392 Seiten

2019
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-57458-5 (ISBN)

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How do the benefits of higher education compare with its costs, and how does this comparison vary across individuals and institutions? These questions are fundamental to quantifying the productivity of the education sector. The studies in Productivity in Higher Education use rich and novel administrative data, modern econometric methods, and careful institutional analysis to explore productivity issues. The authors examine the returns to undergraduate education, differences in costs by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty and of outcomes, the effects of online education on the higher education market, and the ways in which the productivity of different institutions responds to market forces. The analyses recognize five key challenges to assessing productivity in higher education: the potential for multiple student outcomes in terms of skills, earnings, invention, and employment; the fact that colleges and universities are “multiproduct” firms that conduct varied activities across many domains; the fact that students select which school to attend based in part on their aptitude; the difficulty of attributing outcomes to individual institutions when students attend more than one; and the possibility that some of the benefits of higher education may arise from the system as a whole rather than from a single institution. The findings and the approaches illustrated can facilitate decision-making processes in higher education.

Caroline M. Hoxby is the Scott and Donya Bommer Professor in Economics at the Stanford University, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a research associate and director of the Economics of Education Program of the NBER. Kevin Stange is associate professor of public policy at the University of Michigan and a research associate of the NBER.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.12.2019
Reihe/Serie	(NBER) National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Reports
Sprache	englisch
Maße	16 x 23 mm
Gewicht	624 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10	0-226-57458-X / 022657458X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-57458-5 / 9780226574585
Zustand	Neuware