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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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dUniversity professor of economics and education and public policy at the University of Virginia
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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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