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Peer reviewedHarrison, William B. – Economics of Education Review, 1995
Combines costs of fund raising and college-relations data for each of 3 years from 17 colleges and universities with the schools' institutional characteristics to predict ratios of alumni donors to each school's total alumni. With factor analysis, classifies expenditure and institutional variables according to fund-raising effort, donor wealth,…
Descriptors: Alumni, Expenditures, Factor Analysis, Fund Raising
Peer reviewedMancebon, Maria-Jesus; Bandres, Eduardo – Education Economics, 1999
Evaluates efficiency of a sample of Spanish secondary schools, focusing on the measurement model's theoretical specification and the "ex post" analysis of results. Highlights characteristics that differentiate the most efficient schools from the least efficient. Stresses the importance of employing information supplied by both…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Foreign Countries, Institutional Characteristics, Mathematical Models
Peer reviewedGoldhaber, Dan D.; Brewer, Dominic J.; Anderson, Deborah J. – Education Economics, 1999
Estimates a model allowing researchers to determine how much achievement on a 10th-grade standardized test can be explained by observable schooling resources and unobservable school, teacher, and class effects. Although few observable variables are significant test-score determinants, unobservable effects seem important in explaining student…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Grade 10, High Schools, Institutional Characteristics
Peer reviewedKoshal, Rajindar K.; Koshal, Manjulika – Education Economics, 1999
Builds a model explaining the behavior of the supply and demand for education at U.S. liberal arts colleges. A statistical analysis of 1990-91 data for 338 private liberal arts institutions suggests a perfectly competitive market. Student quantity, costs, test scores, class size, and college rankings help explain tuition variations. Contains 27…
Descriptors: Class Size, Costs, Enrollment Trends, Higher Education
Download full textGaret, Michael S.; Chan, Tsze H.; Isaacs, Julia B.; Sherman, Joel D. – 1997
Although policy makers have expressed interest in expenditures by private elementary and secondary schools, nationally representative data in this area are not available. In the absence of expenditure data it may nevertheless be possible to derive national estimates of total expenditures by private schools indirectly, by using the information that…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Data Collection, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Schimmelpfennig, H. R. – 1983
Outlining both methods and results, this report describes Bismarck Junior College's (BJC's) use of the American Council on Education's model for assessing the short-term, current impacts of a college on local business volume. After chapters 1 and 2 discuss the value and focus of economic impact studies, chapter 3 describes BJC in terms of its…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Credit (Finance)
