The Rise and Fall of College Tuition Inflation
| Autor: | Brent Bundick, Emily Pollard |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Inflation
Higher education business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 01 natural sciences Supply and demand 010104 statistics & probability Personal income Inflation rate 0502 economics and business Economics Demographic economics 0101 mathematics business 050205 econometrics media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Review. |
| ISSN: | 0161-2387 |
| DOI: | 10.18651/er/1q19bundickpollard |
| Popis: | The cost of college tuition increased rapidly from 1980 to 2004 at a rate of about 7 percent per year, significantly outpacing the overall inflation rate. Since 2005, college tuition inflation has slowed markedly and has averaged closer to 2 percent per year for the last few years. Understanding what drives tuition inflation is important for predicting future tuition as well as personal income mobility. However, untangling the various supply and demand factors influencing college tuition can be challenging. {{p}} Brent Bundick and Emily Pollard document changes in college tuition inflation over time and attempt to explain the long rise and subsequent fall in college tuition inflation. They find that supply factors such as wages in the education sector and state appropriations to higher education both play important roles in explaining changes in college tuition inflation. In contrast, they find little evidence that demand factors such as changes in the availability of student loans have a significant effect on college tuition. |
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