Amid calls for greater efficiency, public research universities in the U.S. have increasingly adopted Responsibility Center Management (RCM), a decentralized budget model granting greater fiscal auton...

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Academic schools, such as colleges and their constituent departments within larger universities, are increasingly being expected to increase revenues and reduce expenditures in a challenging financial...

This book introduces applied researchers to modern Differences-in-Differences (DID) methods, that they can use to obtain credible answers to hard causal inferen

During the last three weeks, I have thought a lot about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. By the end of the first full week of March, it was clear to me that colleges would c…

If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?

I ask whether the addition of a college football team playing at the Division III level effects three dimensions to an institution’s success: enrollme…

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Here are the telltale signs of financial distress.

Deep cuts at public comprehensive colleges have often made news, but this year they seem deeper and more brutal than ever.

The level of funding allocated to colleges and universities is substantially more important for student outcomes than how funding is allocated.