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The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

Update: 2024-08-224
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America’s top colleges are facing record demand. So why don’t they increase supply? (Part 2 of our series from 2022, “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)

 

  • SOURCES:
    • Peter Blair, professor of education at Harvard University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Zachary Bleemer, assistant professor of economics at Princeton University and faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
    • Amalia Miller, professor of economics at the University of Virginia.
    • Morton Schapiro, professor of economics and former president of Northwestern University.
    • Miguel Urquiola, professor of economics at Columbia University.

 

 

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The University of Impossible-to-Get-Into (Update)

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