Apply Economics to Institutional Research - Softcover

Toutkoushian, Robert K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787995762 ISBN 13: 9780787995768

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2007

Synopsis

This volume provides an overview of the many ways that economic concepts, models, and methods have been, and can be, applied to higher education problems encountered in institutional research. The chapter authors are uniquely qualified to provide this perspective: all are higher education researchers who have received graduate training in economics and have substantial experience working directly in institutional research. The chapters in this volume focus on the economist's perspective on education costs and revenues, how economics can inform enrollment management efforts, and how institutional researchers can use economics to understand labor market issues for faculty.

This is the 132nd issue of New Directions for Institutional Research, a quarterly journal published by Jossey-Bass.

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From the Editors

The field of economics has the potential to greatly inform our understanding of higher education, and hence institutional research. In this volume of New Directions for Institutional Research, we provide an overview of the many ways that eco-nomic concepts, models, and methods have been, and can be, applied to higher education problems encountered in institu-tional research. The chapter authors are uniquely qualified to provide this perspective: all are higher education researchers who have received graduate training in economics and have substantial experience working directly in institutional research. The chapters in this volume focus on the economist's perspective on education costs and revenues, how economics can inform enrollment management efforts, and how institutional researchers can use economics to understand labor market issues for faculty.

About the Author

ROBERT K. TOUTKOUSHIAN is the executive director of the Office of the Policy Analysis for the University System of New Hampshire. He has a doctorate in economics from Indiana University, has published studies on a salary equity for faculty and nonfaculty in academic journals such as the Journal of Higher Education, the Review of Higher Education, Economics of Education Review, the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, and Research in Higher Education, and has conducted salary equity studies for several postsecondary institutions.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0787995762
• ISBN 13: 9780787995768
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122