Monday, September 17, 2007

New NBER report of possible interest

The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), among the library's databases, offers the following study, which was recently announced.

Ranking Affects the Financial Resources of Public Colleges
Ginger Zhe Jin and Alex Whalley

"College quality ranking information leads to increases in expenditure in public colleges, most of which are funded by more state appropriations per student. State appropriations per student are more responsive to USNWR rankings exposure if a state has more citizens who are politically active, care about higher education, and buy USNWR from the newsstand.""

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