Productivity in Higher Education
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780226574585
Description: "This book provides a comprehensive treatment, with chapters that examine the returns to undergrad education, how costs differ by major, the productivity of for-profit schools, the productivity of various types of faculty, how online education has affected the market, and more. This work addresses the five challenges to assessing productivity in higher ed: multiple outcomes, the "multi-product" nature of institutions, selection, attribution, and the public nature of some benefits"--