Research Catalog

Title

The Economics of American higher education / edited by William E. Becker and Darrell R. Lewis.

Publication

Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Becker, William E.
• Lewis, Darrell R.

Description

xii, 349 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Education, Higher > Economic aspects > United States
• Regional economics
• Education, Higher > Economic aspects
• Bildungsökonomie
• Höheres Bildungswesen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Preview of the economics of American higher education / William E. Becker and Darrell R. Lewis -- The Teaching role of contemporary American higher education: popular imagery and organizational reality -- The Research and service missions of the university / G. Edward Schuh and Vernon W. Ruttan -- Why go to college? The Value of an investment in higher education / William E. Becker -- Wages of college graduates / Kevin M. Murphy and Finis Welch -- Private returns to specific college majors / Mark C. Berger -- Private nonmonetary returns to investment in higher education / Elchanan Cohn and Terry G. Geske -- The Role of universities in regional economic development / Tim R. Smith and Mark Drabenstott -- Higher education and regional development / Larry L. Leslie and Sheila A. Slaughter -- Measuring the regional economic effects of federal research grants / Rebecca Dorsett Goodman and William C. Weiler -- The Ambiguous link: private industry and university research / Roger L. Geiger -- Equity issues in higher education outcomes / Melissa S. Anderson and James C. Hearn.

ISBN

• 0792391640
• 9780792391647

LCCN

91025044

OCLC

• ocm24141489
• 24141489
• SCSB-8905710

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library