Religious penalty in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings

Robert Baumann (), David Chu () and Charles Anderton
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David Chu: Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross

No 916, Working Papers from College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics

Abstract: Since its debut in 1983, the U.S. News & World Report College Guide has become the premier ‘consumer report’ of higher education. We find that peer assessment, which is the largest component of the U.S. News & World Report ranking function, contains a penalty for religiously affiliated schools that is independent of the other U.S. News & World Report variables and several proxies for quality. Possible explanations of the religious penalty include taste-based discrimination, perceived differences in the quality of the curriculum, and strategic voting by college administrators.

Keywords: educational economics; efficiency; expenditures; demand for schooling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 14 pages
Date: 2009-12
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Published in Education Economics, Volume 17, Number 4, 2009, Pages 491-504

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