The Economic Analogy

M. McPherson, M.O. Schapiro and Gordon Winston

No DP-37, Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education from Department of Economics, Williams College

Abstract: This paper examines the strengths and weaknesses of the analogy of higher education to a for-profit industry where schools are seen as firms and students as customers.

Keywords: EDUCATION; SCHOOLS; UNIVERSITIES (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 I21 I29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 1996
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