Productivity in Higher Education /

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 administr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Altonji, Joseph G. (Contribuidor), Carrell, Scott E. (Contribuidor), Courant, Paul N. (Contribuidor), Deming, David J. (Contribuidor), Hoxby, Caroline M. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Jacob, Brian (Contribuidor), Kurlaender, Michal (Contribuidor), Lovenheim, Michael (Contribuidor), Minaya, Veronica (Contribuidor), Patterson, Richard (Contribuidor), Riehl, Evan (Contribuidor), Saavedra, Juan E. (Contribuidor), Scott-Clayton, Judith (Contribuidor), Staiger, Douglas (Contribuidor), Stange, Kevin (Contribuidor, Editor ), Turner, Sarah (Contribuidor), Urquiola, Miguel (Contribuidor), Vlieger, Pieter De (Contribuidor), Zimmerman, Seth D. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Temas:
Education, Higher > United States > Costs.
Educational accountability > United States.
Educational productivity > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
earnings outcomes.
higher education.
investment.
productivity.
public benefits.
resource allocation.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. What Health Care Teaches Us about Measuring Productivity in Higher Education
  • 2. The Productivity of US Postsecondary Institutions
  • 3. Labor Market Outcomes and Postsecondary Accountability: Are Imperfect Metrics Better Than None?
  • 4. Learning and Earning: An Approximation to College Value Added in Two Dimensions
  • 5. The Costs of and Net Returns to College Major
  • 6. Faculty Deployment in Research Universities
  • 7. Measuring Instructor Effectiveness in Higher Education
  • 8. The Competitive Effects of Online Education
  • 9. Estimating the Productivity of Community Colleges in Paving the Road to Four- Year College Success
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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