Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?

Ronald Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo and George H. Jakubson

No 9627, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is occuring, presents estimates of the magnitudes of start-up cost packages being provided to scientists and engineers and then uses panel data to estimate the impact of the growing cost of science on student/faculty ratios, faculty salaries and undergraduate tuition.We find that universities whose own expenditures on research are growing the most rapidly, ceteris paribus, have had the greatest increase in student faculty ratios and, in the private sector, higher tuition increases. Thus, undergraduate students bear part of the cost of increased institutional expenditures on research.

JEL-codes: I2 J0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-04
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Published as Ehrenberg, R. and P. Stephan (eds.) Science and the University. University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.

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