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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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Breno Braga
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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Sarah Turner
dUniversity professor of economics and education and public policy at the University of Virginia
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    Constant Dollar Higher Education Appropriations

    Source: Authors’ compilation based on State Higher Education Finance reports (SHEEO 1980–2016) and Tax Policy Center (1980–2016).

    Note: Higher education appropriations are local and state appropriations net of special-purpose, research, and medical appropriations measured in 2017 dollars. We use HECA (Higher Education Cost Adjustment) deflator. FTE is the full-time equivalent enrollment net of medical students. Years in the x-axis are fiscal years.

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    Constant Dollar Appropriations per FTE, Selected States

    Source: Authors’ compilation based on State Higher Education Finance reports (SHEEO 1980–2018), years 1989 to 2017.

    Note: Appropriations by FTE is total appropriations to higher education in the state divided by full-time equivalent enrollment net of medical students. All measures are in 2017 dollars using the HECA index. Years are fiscal years.

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    Changes in Appropriations and Tuition Revenue as a Fraction of Expenditures

    Source: Appropriations, total educational expenditures, and tuition revenue data from IPEDS (U.S. Department of Education 1996–2012), years 1997 to 2012.

    Note: Sample of public four-year degree granting universities. AAU represents members of the American Association of Universities. Research sample is of doctoral universities with high or very high research activity (Carnegie classification). Nonresearch is sample of master’s universities or doctoral universities with low research activity.

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John Bound, Breno Braga, Gaurav Khanna, Sarah Turner
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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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