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The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update) by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

from Freakonomics Radio

by Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher

Published: Thu Aug 22 2024

Show Notes

America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022,“Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)

  • SOURCES:
    • Peter Blair, professor of education at Harvard University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Zachary Bleemer, assistant professor of economics at Princeton University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Amalia Miller, professor of economics at the University of Virginia.
    • Morton Schapiro, professor of economics and former president of Northwestern University.
    • MiguelUrquiola, professor of economics at Columbia University.

  • RESOURCES:
    • “Elite Schools and Opting In: Effects of College Selectivity on Career and Family Outcomes,” by Suqin Ge, Elliott Isaac, and Amalia Miller (Journal of Labor Economics, 2022).
    • “WhyDon’t Elite Colleges Expand Supply?” by Peter Q. Blair & Kent Smetters (NBER Working Paper, 2021).
    • “LoriLoughlin Pleads Guilty via Zoom in College Admissions Case,” by Kate Taylor (The New York Times, 2020).
    • Markets, Minds, and Money: Why America Leads the World in University Research, by Miguel Urquiola (2020).
    • “ToCheat and Lie in L.A.: How the College-Admissions Scandal Ensnared the Richest Families in Southern California,” by Evgenia Peretz (Vanity Fair, 2019).
    • The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money, by Bryan Caplan (2018).
    • “TheWorld Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone,” by Bryan Caplan (The Atlantic, 2018).
    • “AreTenure Track Professors Better Teachers?” by David N. Figlio, Morton O. Schapiro, and Kevin B. Soter (NBER Working Paper, 2013).
    • “Estimating the Payoff to Attending a More Selective College: An Application of Selection on Observables and Unobservables,” by Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger (NBER Working Paper, 1999).
    • "Report on the University’s Role in Political and Social Action," by the Kalven Committee (1967).