Simulations, specific numbers, and a dataset to check your own program

And the assignment that gets students to read 300 pages in 3 weeks

Over the last 18 posts, this series has followed my new course The Economics of Higher Education.

Ok, it's really the Economics of My Liberal Arts College...

Behind closed doors, colleges and universities are considering hiring and spending freezes.

A slew of executive orders and directives from President Donald Trump that put higher education funding on shaky ground has led Northwestern leadership to announce several immediate measures in respon...

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Trends in student interest in Economics and Business at liberal arts colleges

The Liberal Arts Colleges Public and Labor Economics (LAC-PaL) Virtual Seminar is an online seminar series devoted to highlighting research by faculty at Liberal Arts Colleges in the fields of Labor E...

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And if they have giant endowments, why do they have to charge tuition at all?

Ok, I can't really answer that fully, and definitely not in the first post. So let's start with: how have prices and expenditures at liberal arts colleges changed over the last 20 years?