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What Exactly Is College For? (Update)
Manage episode 434272690 series 141
We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series originally published in 2022, we ask what our chaotic system gets right — and wrong. (Part 1 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)
- SOURCES:
- Peter Blair, faculty research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and professor of education at Harvard University.
- Catharine Hill, former president of Vassar College; trustee at Yale University; and managing director at Ithaka S+R.
- Morton Schapiro, professor of economics and former president of Northwestern University.
- Ruth Simmons, former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University.
- Miguel Urquiola, professor of economics at Columbia University.
- RESOURCES:
- "Progressivity of Pricing at U.S. Public Universities," by Emily E. Cook and Sarah Turner (NBER Working Paper, 2022).
- "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility," by Jack Mountjoy (NBER Working Paper, 2021).
- "How HBCUs Can Accelerate Black Economic Mobility," (McKinsey & Company, 2021).
- Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research, by Miguel Urquiola (2021).
- "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility," by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan (NBER Working Paper, 2017).
- EXTRAS:
- "'If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
- "'A Low Moment in Higher Education,'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
- "The $1.5 Trillion Question: How to Fix Student-Loan Debt?" by Freakonomics Radio (2019).
- "Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love," by Freakonomics Radio (2017).
788 episoder
Manage episode 434272690 series 141
We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series originally published in 2022, we ask what our chaotic system gets right — and wrong. (Part 1 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)
- SOURCES:
- Peter Blair, faculty research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research and professor of education at Harvard University.
- Catharine Hill, former president of Vassar College; trustee at Yale University; and managing director at Ithaka S+R.
- Morton Schapiro, professor of economics and former president of Northwestern University.
- Ruth Simmons, former president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University.
- Miguel Urquiola, professor of economics at Columbia University.
- RESOURCES:
- "Progressivity of Pricing at U.S. Public Universities," by Emily E. Cook and Sarah Turner (NBER Working Paper, 2022).
- "Community Colleges and Upward Mobility," by Jack Mountjoy (NBER Working Paper, 2021).
- "How HBCUs Can Accelerate Black Economic Mobility," (McKinsey & Company, 2021).
- Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research, by Miguel Urquiola (2021).
- "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility," by Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Nicholas Turner, and Danny Yagan (NBER Working Paper, 2017).
- EXTRAS:
- "'If We’re All in It for Ourselves, Who Are We?'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
- "'A Low Moment in Higher Education,'" by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
- "The $1.5 Trillion Question: How to Fix Student-Loan Debt?" by Freakonomics Radio (2019).
- "Why Larry Summers Is the Economist Everyone Hates to Love," by Freakonomics Radio (2017).
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