Williams Project on the Economics of Higher Education

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73: Affordability of Highly Selective Colleges and Universities II

Gordon Winston, Catharine Hill, David Davis-Van Atta and Rishad Gambhir

72: Low-Income Students and Highly Selective Private Colleges: Searching and Recruiting

Gordon Winston and Catharine Hill

71: A Note on How Well Available Income Information Identifies Low-Income Students

Gordon Winston, Catharine Hill and David Zimmerman

70: Social Comparison of Abilities at an Elite College: Feeling Outclassed with 1350 SATs

George Goethals and Matthew Kugler

69: Access to the Most Selective Private Colleges by High-Ability, Low-Income Students: Are They Out There?

Gordon Winston and Catharine Hill

68: Institutional Ethos, Peers and Individual Outcomes

David Rosenblum, Preston Hillman and David Zimmerman

67: Who Cares? How Students View Faculty and Other Adults in US Higher Education

George Goethals, Gordon Winston, David Zimmerman, Laurie Hurshman, Adam Sischy and Georgi Zhelev

66: Affordability: Family Incomes and Net Prices at Highly Selective Private Colleges and Universities

Gordon Winston, Catharine Hill and Stephanie Boyd

65: Toward a Theory of Tuition: Prices, Peer Wages, and Competition in Higher Education

Gordon Winston

64: Peer Effects in Higher Education

Gordon Winston and David Zimmerman

63: Impatience and grades: Delay-discount rates correlate negatively with college GPA

Gordon Winston, Kris Kirby and Mariana Santiesteban

62: Access: Net Prices, Affordability, and Equity At A Highly Selective College

Gordon Winston and Catharine Hill

61: Peer effects, gender and intellectual performance among students at a highly selective college: a social comparison of abilities analysis

George Goethals

60: "Grow" the College? Why Bigger May Be Far From Better

Gordon Winston

59: Saving, Wealth, Performance, and Revenues in US Colleges and Universities

Gordon Winston, Jared Carbone and Laurie Hurshman

58: Economic Stratification and Hierarchy Among U.S. Colleges and Universities

Gordon Winston

57: Undergraduate Financial Aid and Subsequent Giving Behavior

K. Dugan, C.H. Mullin and John Siegfried

56: Where is Aggressive Price Competition Taking Higher Education?

Gordon Winston and David Zimmerman

55: Social Comparison and Peer Effects at an Elite College

G.R. Goethals

54: The Positional Arms Race in Higher Education

Gordon Winston

53: So You Want to Earn a PH.D. in Economics: How Long do you Think it Will Take?

John Siegfried and W.A. Stock

52: Peer Effects in Academic Outcomes: Evidence From a Natural Experiment

David Zimmerman

51: Peer Influence Among College Students: the Perils and the Potentials

G. Goethals

50: Students Educating Students: The Emerging Role of Peer Effects in Higher Education

G. Goethals, Gordon Winston and David Zimmerman

49: For-Profit Higher Education: Godzilla or Chicken Little?

Gordon Winston

48: The Effect of Historically Black Colleges on Wages of Black Students: an Analysis by Gender

J.M. Constantine

47: What's Been Happening to Higher Education? Facts, Trends, and Data

Gordon Winston, Jared Carbone and Ethan Lewis

46: A Guide to Measuring College Costs

Gordon Winston

45: College Costs: Subsidies, Intuition, and Policy

Gordon Winston

44: Thinking Seriously about Paying for College: The Large Effects of a Little Thought

G.R. Goethals and C. McPherson Frantz

43: Financing Undergraduate Education: Designing National Policy

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

42: Why Can't a College be More Like a Firm?

Gordon Winston

41: Subsidies, Costs, Tuition and Aid in US Higher Education

Ethan Lewis and Gordon Winston

40: The Economic Structure of Higher Education: Subsidies, Customer-Inputs, and Hierarchy

Gordon Winston

39: Subsidy Shock: Reshaping Jugements of College Sticker Prices

G-R Goethals and C McPherson Frantz

38: The Impact of College Quality on Wages: Are There Differences Among Demographic Groups?

J-R Berhman, L Kletzer, J Constantine, M McPherson and M-O Schapiro

37: The Economic Analogy

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

36: Cohort Size Effects on US Enrollment Decisions

Diane Macunovich

35: Physical Capital and Capital Costs in US Colleges and Universities: 1993

Gordon Winston and Ethan Lewis

34: Are We Keeping College Affordable? Student Aid, Access, and Choice in American Higher Education

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

33: Capital and Capital Service Costs in 2700 US Colleges and Universities

Gordon Winston

32: Costs, Prices, Subsidies, and Aid in U.S. Higher Education

Gordon Winston and I.C. Yen

31: Skills, Innovations and Values: Future Needs for Postsecondary Education

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

30: Measuring the Effect of Attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Future Wages of Black Students

J.M. Constantine

29: College Choice and Family Income: Changes Over Time in the Higher Educations of Students from Different Income Backgrounds

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

28: The Economic Performance of Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore and Wellesley 1988-9 to 1992-3: A Global Comparison

Gordon Winston and Valerie Weber

27: Expenditures and Revenues in American Higher Education

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

26: Predicting Higher Education Enrollment in the United States: An Evaluation of Different Modelling Approaches

Michael McPherson, Morton Schapiro and Dennis Ahlburg

25: Merit Aid: Students, Institutions, and Society

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

24: The Decline in Undergraduate Teaching: Moral Failure or Market Pressures?

Gordon Winston

23: A Note on the Logic and Structure of Global Accounting: Tautologies to Accounts

Gordon Winston

22: Maintaining Collegiate Wealth: Global Accounts, Fund Accounting, and Rules of Thumb

Gordon Winston

21: Prices and Preferences in Choice of Career: The Switch to Business, 1972-87

Richard Easterlin

20: Projections of College Costs, Affordability, and Tuition Dependency at COFHE and Other Institutions: 1990:2010

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

19: New Dangers in Old Traditions: The Reporting of Economic Performance in Colleges and Universities

Gordon Winston

18: The College Investment Decision: Direct and Indirect Effects of Family Background on Choice of Postsecondary Enrollment and Quality

Michael McPherson, Morton Schapiro, Lori Kletzer and Jere Behrman

17: Trends in Revenues and Expenditures in U.S. Higher Education: Where Does the Money Come From? Where Does it Go?

Michael McPherson, Morton Schapiro and Scott Blasdell

16: Hostility, Trust, and Maximization: An Economic View of Higher Education in 1992

Gordon Winston

15: Organizing Economic Information for Colleges and Universities: An Alternative to Fund Accounting

Gordon Winston

14: Why Are Capital Costs Ignored by Colleges and Universities and What Are the Prospects for Change?

Gordon Winston

13: The Economics of Cost, Price and Quality in U.S. Higher Education

Michael McPherson and Gordon Winston

12: Federalism and Higher Education Finance: Rethinking the Role of the States and the Federal Government in Paying for College

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

11: The Student Finance System For Undergraduate Education: How Well Does it Work?

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

10: Wealth in Higher Education Institutions

Ralph Bradburd and Duncan Mann

9: The Effect of Government Financing on the Behavior of Colleges and Universities

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

8: Projections of College Costs and Affordability: 1990-2010

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

7: Determinants of Performance in Introductory Courses in Economics and Seven Other Disciplines

Richard Sabot and John Wakeman-Linn

6: Tracing the Economic Backgrounds of COFHE Students: Has There Been a 'Middle-Income Melt'?

Michael O'Malley, Morton Schapiro and Larry Litten

5: Expenditure Patterns and Trends in U.S. Higher Education: Implications for Quality

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

4: Measuring the Effects of Federal Student Aid: An Assessment of Some Methodological And Empirical Problems

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro

3: The Implications of Grading Policies for Student Course Choice

Richard Sabot and John Wakeman-Linn

2: Progression to Graduate School from the 'Elite' College and Universities

Michael O'Malley, Morton Schapiro and Larry Litten

1: Does Student Aid Affect College Enrollment? New evidence on a Persistent Controversy

Michael McPherson and Morton Schapiro