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Public Universities: The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce

John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, Sarah Turner
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences December 2019, 5 (5) 43-66; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.03
John Bound
aGeorge E. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan
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bA senior research associate at the Urban Institute
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Gaurav Khanna
cAssistant professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego
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dUniversity professor of economics and education and public policy at the University of Virginia
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vol. 5 no. 5 43-66
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https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.03

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2377-8253
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  • Published online November 4, 2019.

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© 2019 Russell Sage Foundation. Bound, John, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, and Sarah Turner. 2019. “Public Universities: The Supply Side of Building a Skilled Workforce.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 5(5): 43–66. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2019.5.5.03. We thank Seynabou Diop, Max Huppertz, and Jennifer Mayo for excellent research assistance, Alexandra Tammaro for editorial assistance, and Harry Holzer, Sandy Baum, Michael McPherson, participants in the Russell Sage Foundation conference, and two reviewers for insightful comments. Direct correspondence to: John Bound at jbound@umich.edu, University of Michigan, Department of Economics, 611 Tappan Ave., Ann Arbor, MI 48109; Breno Braga at bbraga@urban.org; Gaurav Khanna at gakhanna@ucsd.edu; and Sarah Turner at sturner@virginia.edu. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

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  1. John Bounda,
  2. Breno Bragab,
  3. Gaurav Khannac and
  4. Sarah Turnerd
  1. aGeorge E. Johnson Collegiate Professor of Economics at the University of Michigan
  2. bA senior research associate at the Urban Institute
  3. cAssistant professor of economics at the School of Global Policy and Strategy at the University of California, San Diego
  4. dUniversity professor of economics and education and public policy at the University of Virginia
  1. Correspondence authors:
    John Bound, (jbound{at}umich.edu), Breno Braga, (bbraga{at}urban.org), Gaurav Khanna, (gakhanna{at}ucsd.edu), Sarah Turner, (sturner{at}virginia.edu)
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    • PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES IN THE CONTEXT OF U.S. HIGHER EDUCATION
    • DECLINES IN STATE SUPPORT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
    • ADAPTING REVENUES OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
    • EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
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