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College tuition has risen more rapidly than the overall inflation rate for much of the past century. To explain rising college cost, the authors place the higher education industry firmly within the larger economic history of the United States.

Note biographique

Robert B. Archibald is Chancellor Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the College of William and Mary. Together with David Feldman, he has published widely on the economics of higher education.

David H. Feldman is Professor of Economics and Public Policy, and Chair of the Department of Economics at the College of William & Mary. He has also been honored with a University Professorship for Teaching Excellence. In addition to his work with Robert Archibald on higher education he writes about the international economy.

Table des matières

• Part 1 - Introduction


• Chapter 1: The Landscape of the College Cost Debate


• Chapter 2: Is Higher Education All That Unusual?


• Part 2 - Costs


• Chapter 3: Higher Education is a Service


• Chapter 4: The Costs of Employing Highly Educated Workers


• Chapter 5: Cost and Quality in Higher Education


• Chapter 6: The Bottom Line: Why Does College Cost So Much?


• Chapter 7: Is Higher Education Increasingly Dysfunctional?


• Chapter 8: Productivity Growth in Higher Education


• Part 3 - Tuition and Fees


• Chapter 9: Subsidies and Tuition Setting


• Chapter 10: List-Price Tuition and Institutional Grants


• Chapter 11: Outside Financial Aid


• Chapter 12: The College Affordability Crisis


• Part 4 - Policy


• Chapter 13: Federal Policy and College Tuition


• Chapter 14: Financial Aid Policy


• Chapter 15: Rewriting the Relationship between States and Their Public Universities


• Chapter 16: A Few Final Observations


• Appendix 1: Data on Costs and Prices


• Appendix 2: Granger Causality Tests of the Bennett Hypothesis

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