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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: neolib who wrote (65919)4/10/2018 1:33:53 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 358102
 
The only thing I can think of is that fees are often for things other than the core (or at least supposedly core) mission of education.

But they are what the educational institution charges. And in any case tuition has gone up a lot even if you ignore fees. (As have government support, and costs for books and other materials)

In any case the core point wasn't directly about "tuition and fees" as it was spending (which then drives those tutions and fee increases, as well as demand for other sources of money)

"If labor costs rise because the compensation of professors rises, the cost disease is likely responsible. But if labor costs rise because universities are hiring different sorts of employees, such as administrators, something besides the cost disease must be the culprit.

Using this method, the authors determine that Baumol’s cost disease accounts for just 16% of the total increase in spending at public research universities from 1987 to 2008."

A secondary point is -

"The remainder is due to a variety of factors, but one of the most important is the revenue theory of costs—the idea that colleges and universities exploit all sources of revenue made available to them, and bump up spending to match whatever funds they can raise. Unlimited student loans courtesy of the federal government therefore act as a spending enabler."
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