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CHERI Working Papers | ||
| WP 112 | "Mortality and Immortality: The Nobel Prize as an Experiment into the Effect of Status upon Longevity" (May 2008) | Matthew Rablens and Andrew Oswald |
| WP 111 | "Highly Cited Leaders and the Performance of Research Universities" (April 2008) | Amanda Goodall |
| WP 110 | "Determinants of Grades, Persistence and Major Choice for Low-Income and Minority Students" (April 2008) | Amanda Griffith |
| WP 109 | "College Football Games and Crime" (January 2008) | Daniel Rees and Kevin Schnepel |
| WP 108 | "Policy Considerations for Enhancing Student Access and Persistence in a World in Which Tuition Keeps Rising" (December 2007) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 107 | "A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program" (December 2007) | C. Kirabo Jackson |
| WP 106 | "The Economics of Tuition and Fees in American Higher Education" (November 2007) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 105 | "What Determines Employment of Part-Time Faculty in Higher Education Institutions?" (June 2007) | Xiangmin Liu and Liang Zhang |
| WP 104 | "Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities" (May 2007) | Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Ronald Ehrenberg and Jesenka Mrdjenovic |
| WP 103 | "Faculty Demand in Higher Education" (May 2007) | Danielle Rosenthal |
| WP 102 | "The Cost of Crafting a Class: (In)Efficient Financial Aid Allocation at Two Private Colleges" (May 2007) | Robert Martin, Randy Campbell and Michael Rizzo |
| WP 101 | "The Impact of Merit Based Financial Aid and Price Illusion on College Enrollment: A Field Experiment" (March 2007) | James Monks |
| WP 100 | "Can't Get Here from There: The Decision to Apply to a Selective Institution" (March 2007) | Amanda Griffith and Donna S. Rothstein |
| WP 99 | "The Future of Government Financing of Higher Education" (March 2007) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 98 | "Transfer College Quality And Student Performance" (November 2006) | Angela Dills and Rey Hernández-Julián |
| WP 97 | "Faculty Employment and R&D Expenditures at Research Universities" (November 2006) | Ronald Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang |
| WP 96 | "Citizenship, Gender, and Racial Differences in the Publishing Success Of Graduate Students and Young Academics" (October 2006) | Joseph Price and Joshua Price |
| WP 95 | "Gender Differences In The Response To Competition" (September 2006) | Joseph Price |
| WP 94 | "Does a Spouse Slow You Down?: Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes" (September 2006) | Joseph Price |
| WP 93 | "Money Changes Everything: Funding Shocks and Optimal Admissions and Financial Aid Policies in Higher Education" (September 2006) | Matthew G. Nagler |
| WP 92 | "Does Public Funding for Higher Education Matter?" (August 2006) | Liang Zhang |
| WP 91 | "The Graduate Education Initiative: Description and Preliminary Findings" (September 2006) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Harriet Zuckerman, Jeffrey Groen, and Sharon M. Brucker |
| WP 90 | "Understanding The Racial Disparity In Graduation Rates At A Large Ivy League University" (May 2006) | Marquise McGraw |
| WP 89 | "Does It Take an Expert to Lead Experts? An Empirical Study of Business School Deans" (April 2006) | Amanda H. Goodall |
| WP 88 | "The Effects of Class Size on Student Grades at a Public University" (February 2006) Economics of Education Review (forthcoming) | Edward Kokkelenberg, Michael Dillon, and Sean M. Christy |
| WP 87 | "Doctoral Education and Academic Research (in India)" (February 2006) | Arkadev Chatterjea and Satya Priya Moulik |
| WP 86 | "Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education" (January 2006) (forthcoming in the Economics of Education Review) | Jeffrey Groen, George Jakubson, Ronald Ehrenberg, Scott Condie, and Albert Yung-Hsu Liu |
| WP 85 | "Key Issues Facing Trustees of National Research Universities In The Decade Ahead" (December 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 84 | "Union and Union Threat Premiums Among Graduate Student Stipends" (December 2005) | Albert Yung-Hsu Liu |
| WP 83 | "Inside The Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students' Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?" (December 2005) forthcoming in "Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis", forthcoming in S. Conlin-Kickert and R. Rothenstein eds, Reducing Inequality in Higher Education (Russell Sage) | Ronald Ehrenberg, George Jakubson, Jeffrey Groen, Eric So, and Joseph Price |
| WP 82 | "Should Top Universities Be Led By Top Researchers and Are They?" (October 2005) forthcoming in the Journal of Documentation, Volume 62 (2006) | Amanda Goodall |
| WP 81 | "Relative Tuition Levels and the Educational Focus of First-time Fulltime Community College Students" (September 2005) forthcomoing in the Economics of Education Review | Andrew Nutting |
| WP 80 | "Title IX Compliance and Preference for Men in College Admissions" (September 2005) | James Monks |
| WP 79 | "Reducing Inequality in Higher Education: Where do We Go From Here?" (September 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 78 | "The Changing Nature of the Faculty and Faculty Employment Practices" (September 2005) published in the The New Balancing Act in the Business of Higher Education (Elgar, 2006) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 77 | "The Perfect Storm and the Privatization of Public Higher Education" (September 2005) published in Change, (Jan/Feb 2006) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 76 | "The Influence of the U.S. News and World Report Collegiate Rankings on the Matriculation Decision of High-Ability Students: 1995-2004." (September 2005) forthcoming in the Economics of Education Review | Amanda Griffith and Kevin Rask |
| WP 75 | "Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes" (July 2005) | Joseph Price |
| WP 74 | "Community College Revenue Disparities: What Accounts for an Urban College Deficit?" (July 2005) | Alicia Dowd |
| WP 73 | "Equity and Efficiency of Community College Appropriations: The Role of Local Financing" published in the Review of Higher Education (2006) | Alicia Dowd and John Grant |
| WP 72 | "If Community College Students Are so Poor Why Do Only 16.9% Of Them Receive Pell Grants?" (April 2005) published in Community College Journal of Research and Practice (April/May 2006) | Richard Romano and Timothy Millard |
| WP 71 | "Crafting A Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students" published in the Review of Higher Education, (Winter 2006) | Ronald Ehrenberg, Liang Zhang, and Jared Levin |
| WP 70 | "Going Broke by Degree: A Review Essay" published in the Journal of Labor Research (April 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 69 | "Declining PhD Attainment of Graduates of Selective Private Academic Instutions" (April 2005) published in Education Finance and Policy (Winter 2007) | Ronald Ehrenberg, Jeffrey Groen, and Mathew Nagowski |
| WP 68 | "The SUNY Tuition Guarantee Proposal" (March 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 67 | "The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement in Higher Education" (February 2005) forthcoming in the Economics of Education Review | Edward Kokkelenberg, Michael Dillon, and Sean Christy |
| WP 66 | "Do Community College Students Benefit When Transferring with Other Transfers?: A Cross-Section Peer Effects Analysis" (February 2005) | Andrew Nutting |
| WP 65 | "Graduate Education, Innovation and Federal Responsibility"; published in the Communicator (2005) (February 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 64 | "Do Measures of College Quality Matter?: The Effect of College Quality on Graduates' Earnings" (February 2005) published in the Journal of Higher Education (Summer 2005) | Liang Zhang |
| WP 63 | "Crowd Out or Opt Out: The Changing Landscape of Doctorate Production in American Universities" (February 2005) | Liang Zhang |
| WP 62 | "Post-Baccalaureate Wage Growth within Four Years of Graduation: The Effects of College Quality and College Major" (February 2005) published in Research in Higher Education (June 2005) | Scott Thomas and Liang Zhang |
| WP 61 | "Quest for Knowledge and Pursuit of Grades: Grade Information and Inflation at an Ivy League School?" (January 2005) | Talia Bar and Asaf Zussman |
| WP 60 | "Why Do Field Differentials In Average Faculty Salary Vary Across Universities?" (revised June 2005) published in the Economics of Education Review (June 2006) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Marquise McGraw, and Jesenka Mrdjenovic |
| WP 59 | "The Relative Earnings of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education" (December 2004) | James Monks |
| WP 58 | "Public versus Private University Presidents Pay Levels and Structure" (December 2004) | James Monks |
| WP 57 | "Understanding Faculty Out-of-Class Interaction with Undergraduate Students at a Research University" (November 2004) | Marne Einarson and Marin Clarkberg |
| WP 56 | "Involving Undergraduates in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake PhD Study in Economics" (December 2004) published in the American Economic Review (May 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 55 | "The Public Interest In Higher Education" (November 2004) | Michael Rizzo |
| WP 54 | "Time-of-Transfer and the Outcomes of Attending a Four-Year College: Evidence from SUNY" (November 2004) | Andrew Nutting |
| WP 53 | "Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?" (Revised December 2004) published in the Journal of Human Resources (Summer 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang |
| WP 52 | "A (Less Than) Zero Sum Game? State Funding For Public Education: How Public Higher Education Institutions Have Lost" (August 2004) | Michael Rizzo |
| WP 51 | "Advance to Graduate Education: The Effect of College Quality and Undergraduate Majors" (June 2004) published in the Review of Higher Education (Spring 2005) | Liang Zhang |
| WP 50 | "Why Universities Need Institutional Researchers More Than They Realize?" (April 2004) Revised version published in Research in Higher Education(May 2005) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 49 | "The Future of Affirmative Action" (May 2004) | Ronald Ehrenberg |
| WP 48 | "The Changing Composition of American-Citizen PhDs" (March 2004) forthcoming in R. Ehrenberg and P. Stephan eds., Science and the University (University of Wisconsin Press) | Jeffrey A. Groen and Michael J. Rizzo |
| WP 47 | "Changes in the Academic Labor Market for Economists" (March 9, 2004) published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives (Summer 2004) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 46 | "Key Issues Currently Facing American Higher Education" (February 2004) published in Charles Beech et.al. eds., Higher Education in Canada (McGill University Press, 2005) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 45 | "Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Determinants of Title IX Compliance" (February 2004) published in the Journal of Higher Education (March/April 2006) | D. J. Anderson, J. J. Cheslock and R. G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 44 | "The Changing Nature of Faculty Employment" (January 2004) published in Recruitment, Retention, and Retirement (Elgar, 2006) | Ronald Ehrengberg and Liang Zhang |
| WP 43 | "How College Affects Students: Toward The Reconciliation Of Theory With Empirical Evidence" (December 2003) | Liang Zhang |
| WP 42 | "A (Less Than) Zero Sum Game? State Funding for Public Education: How Public Higher Education Institutions Have Lost" (September 2003) | Michael J. Rizzo |
| WP 41 | "Wealth and Resource Allocation at Private Institutions of Higher Education " (November 2003) | Matthew P. Nagowski |
| WP 40 | "Increasing Earnings Inequality in Faculty Labor Markets" (September 2003) | James Monks |
| WP 39 | "Method or Madness? Inside the USNWR College Rankings" (September 2003) published in the Journal of College Admissions (Fall 2005) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 38 | "Changes in Faculty Composition Within the State University of New York System: 1985 - 2001" (August 2003) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel B. Klaff |
| WP 37 | "Faculty Productivity In Supervising Doctoral Students' Dissertations at Cornell University" (May 2003) published in the Economics of Education Review (February 2005) | Peter M. Crosta and Iris G. Packman |
| WP 36 | "Tracking Community College Transfers Using National Student Clearinghouse Data" (April 2003) | Richard M. Romano and Martin Wisniewski |
| WP 35 | "Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?" (April 2003) presented at CHERI's May 2003 Conference, forthcoming in R. Ehrenberg and P. Stephan eds., Science and the University (University of Wisconsin Press) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo and George H. Jakubson |
| WP 34 | "The Effect of College Location on Migration of College-Educated Labor" (latest draft, July 2003) published in the Journal of Econometrics (July/August 2004) | Jeffrey A. Groen |
| WP 33 | "Start Up Costs in American Research Universities" (March 2003) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Michael J. Rizzo, and Scott S. Condie |
| WP 32 | "Financing Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century" an invited address prepared for the 2003 annual meeting of the American Educational Finance Association (March 2003) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 31 | "Associate Professor Turnover at America's Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education " (latest draft, March 2004) published in the American Economist (Spring 2006) | Matthew P. Nagowski |
| WP 30 | "Do Median Grades Vary Across Departments?" (December 2002) | Jay Parekh |
| WP 29 | "Econometric Studies of Higher Education" (December 2002) Published in the Journal of Econometrics (July/August 2004) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg-Forthcoming in the Journal of Economics |
| WP 28 | "The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement in Higher Education: Applying an Earnings Function" (November 2002) | Kokkelenberg, et al. |
| WP 27 | "The Sources and Uses of Annual Giving at Selective Private Research Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges" (October 2002) a new draft of CHERI WP 13, with related charts and figures-published in the Economics of Education Review, June 2003 | Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L. Smith |
| WP 26 | "Resident and Nonresident Tuition and Enrollment at Flagship State Universities" Published in Caroline Hoxby ed., College Decisions: How Students Actually Make Them and How They Could University of Chicago Press (August 2004) | Michael J. Rizzo and Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 25 | "In-State versus Out-of-State Students: The Divergence of Interest between Public Universities and State Governments" (latest draft, July 2003) Published in the Journal of Public Economics (August 2004) | Jeffrey A. Groen and Michelle J. White |
| WP 24 | "Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?" (revised July 2003) Published in Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis (Summer 2004) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg, et al. |
| WP 23 | "Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market" Published in the Journal of Labor Economics (April 2003) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 22 | "Within State Transitions From 2-Year to 4-Year Public Institutions" (January 2002) published in the Economics of Education Review (February 2004) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L. Smith |
| WP 21 | "Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities" (January 2002) Published in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (October 2003) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel B. Klaff |
| WP 20 | "The Determinants of an Institution's Transfer Student Enrollment" (December 2001) published in the Economics of Education Review (June 2005) | John J. Cheslock |
| WP 19 | "How College Enrollment Stategies Affect Student Labor Market Success" (December 2001) | John J. Cheslock and Michael J. Hilmer |
| WP 18 | "Come and Stay a While: Does Financial Aid Effect Enrollment and Retention at a Large Public University?" (August 2001) Published in the Economics of Education Review (October 2004) | Larry D. Singell, Jr. |
| WP 17 | "Reaching for the Brass Ring: How the U.S. News and World Report Rankings Shape the Competitive Environment in U.S. Higher Education" published in the Review of Higher Education (Winter 2003) | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 16 |
"What a Difference a Decade Makes: Growing Wealth Inequality Among Ivy Institutions" (May 2001) |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L. Smith |
| WP 15 |
"Trustees and Faculty Retirement Policies" (March 2001), published under the title "Don't Shy from Retirement Questions" in Trusteeship, (July/August 2001). |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 14 |
"The Class Size Controversy" (an edited version appeared in Psychological Science in the Public Interest, May 2001). (A more popular version titled "Does Class Size Matter?" appeared in Scientific American, Nov. 2001). |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Dominic J. Brewer, Adam Gamoran and J. Douglas Willms |
| WP 13 |
"The Sources and Uses of Annual Giving at Private Research Universities" (Prepared for presentation at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI) conference on "Financing Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century," Ithaca, NY, May 22-23, 2001). - related working paper charts |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Christopher L. Smith |
| WP
12 |
"Has the Growth of Science Crowded Out Other Things at Universities?" (Working draft, September 2000)- related working paper charts. (edited version published in Change, July/August 2001). |
Ronald Ehrenberg and Julia Epifantseva |
| WP 11 | "The Supply of American Higher Education Institutions," (published in M. McPherson and M. Schapiro eds. Ford Policy Forum 2001: Exploring the Economics of Higher Education) . | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP
10 |
"Will Trustees Tame Tuition?" (a condensed version appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education), an edited version appeared in Trusteeship, January 2001. |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP
9 |
"Paying Our Presidents: What Do Trustees Value?" published in Review of Higher Education (Fall 2001) - related working paper charts |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, John J. Cheslock, and Julia Epifantseva |
| WP 8 | "Nerd Harassment and Grade Inflation: Are College Admission Processes Partly Responsible?" (Draft, 2000). | John H. Bishop |
| WP
7 |
"Determinants of Faculty Gender Ratios Across Institutions and Departments," (Cornell University Senior Honors Thesis, May 2000). | Anita Nimi Rajeswaren |
| WP 6 | "The Impact of the Business Week and U.S. News & World Report Rankings on the Business Schools They Rank." (Cornell University Senior Honors Thesis, May 2000) - related working paper charts. | Ian Bednowitz |
| WP 5 | "Financial Prospects for American Higher Education in the First Decade of the Twenty-first Century", February 2000 (an edited version was published in The Presidency) Spring 2000. | Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 4 | "Ivy League Athletic Performance: Do Brains Win?" Journal of Sports Economics, Vol 1 , May 2000). | Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Dmitry Kotlyarenko |
| WP 3 | "Why Can't Colleges Control
Their Costs?" An edited version published in M. Devlin and J.
Meyerson ed. Forum Futures - Exploring the Future of Higher Education
- 2000 Papers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001). |
Ronald G. Ehrenberg |
| WP 2 | "Higher Education: The Ultimate Winner-Take-All Market?"An edited version published in M. Devlin and J. Meyerson ed. Forum Futures - Exploring the Future of Higher Education - 2000 Papers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2001). | Robert H. Frank |
| WP 1 |
"The Impact of U.S. News & World Report College Rankings on Admissions Outcomes and Pricing Policies at Selective Private Institutions" (July 1999) (edited version published in Change, Nov/Dec 1999). |
James Monks and Ronald G. Ehrenberg |