Abstract
The dissertation is comprised of two independent chapters on competition between universities and how government policy changes the nature of the competition. The first chapter looks at how in-state tuition effects competition between public and private four year universities. The second chapter looks at how federal aid effects the behavior of individual for-profit universities, and estimates the effect of a rule change on the amount of federal aid revenue collected by for-profit universities.
Keywords
education, for-profit, university
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Economics
First Advisor
Kevin J Mumford
Second Advisor
John M Barron
Committee Member 1
Justin L Tobias
Committee Member 2
Brian Roberson
Date of Award
January 2016
Recommended Citation
Davis, Zachary George, "Essays on University Competition" (2016). Open Access Dissertations. 1382.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/open_access_dissertations/1382