| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w18745 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 18745 |
| College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption? | |
| Brian Jacob; Brian McCall; Kevin M. Stange | |
| 发表日期 | 2013-01-25 |
| 出版年 | 2013 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper investigates whether demand-side market pressure explains colleges' decisions to provide consumption amenities to their students. We estimate a discrete choice model of college demand using micro data from the high school classes of 1992 and 2004, matched to extensive information on all four-year colleges in the U.S. We find that most students do appear to value college consumption amenities, including spending on student activities, sports, and dormitories. While this taste for amenities is broad-based, the taste for academic quality is confined to high-achieving students. The heterogeneity in student preferences implies that colleges face very different incentives depending on their current student body and the students who the institution hopes to attract. We estimate that the elasticities implied by our demand model can account for 16 percent of the total variation across colleges in the ratio of amenity to academic spending, and including them on top of key observable characteristics (sector, state, size, selectivity) increases the explained variation by twenty percent. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w18745 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/576418 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Brian Jacob,Brian McCall,Kevin M. Stange. College as Country Club: Do Colleges Cater to Students' Preferences for Consumption?. 2013. |
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