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The Changing Landscape of Tuition and Enrollment in American Public Higher Education

Steven W. Hemelt, Dave E. Marcotte
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences April 2016, 2 (1) 42-68; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.1.03
Steven W. Hemelt
aAssistant professor of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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bProfessor of public policy and director of the Washington Institute for Public Affairs Research at American University in Washington, D.C
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