Nonprofit colleges and universities have merged across the United States citing economies
of scale and scope. Yet whether these mergers raise prices has not been empirically …

This paper empirically analyzes how universities decide which courses to offer and the
implications of these decisions for students. At a sample university, course offerings …

A popular proposal to address the rising cost of higher education in the United States has
been to provide tuition-free access to community colleges. This paper examines the effect of …

Universities are important social institutions yet little is known about how they make
institutional decisions. This paper develops a new framework for empirically analyzing …