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Womack, Sid T.; Roberts, Kerry; Bell, C. David; Womack, Karen – Online Submission, 2015
Cost-benefit correlations have been subject to "selective sampling" in the media. Usually extremes of data from a very few high-funding and low-funding states are cited in the media to construct the case that there is no relationship between economic inputs and academic outputs. This study, using average per-pupil expenditures and ACT…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Expenditure per Student, Educational Finance, Predictor Variables
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Webber, Douglas A. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories across student characteristics. I estimate that student…
Descriptors: Student Characteristics, Educational Finance, Measurement, Probability
Webber, Douglas A. – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2011
Using detailed individual-level data from public universities in the state of Ohio, I estimate the effect of various institutional expenditures on the probability of graduating from college. Using a competing risks regression framework, I find differential impacts of expenditure categories across student characteristics. I estimate that student…
Descriptors: Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Cost Effectiveness, College Administration