Date of Award

1-1-2015

Language

English

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

College/School/Department

Department of Economics

Content Description

1 online resource (v, 164 pages) : color illustrations.

Dissertation/Thesis Chair

Jone Bailey Jones

Committee Members

Gerald R Marschke, Byoung Gun Park

Keywords

College costs, School enrollment, College attendance, Student aid, Universities and colleges

Subject Categories

Education | Labor Economics

Abstract

In the first chapter, I analyze the growth patterns of postsecondary education costs in re-cent years. It shows the trends of college revenue, expenditure and other financial items using data drawn from the Delta Data Project between 1987 and 2010. Connections be-tween various categories of revenue / spending and state-level macroeconomic indicators were analyzed using GLS models. College tuition had been growing rapidly over time, whereas total revenues and expenditures did not grow so much. The differences in the responses of public sector and private sector institutions to changes in state-level factors stem from differences in their main sources of revenue and the ways in which they used their money.

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