TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Rizzo,Michael J.
AU  - Jakubson,George H.
TI  - Who Bears the Growing Cost of Science at Universities?
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9627
PY  - 2003
Y2  - April 2003
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9627
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9627.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu

Michael Rizzo
260 Ives Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY  14853
Tel: 607-275-3582
E-Mail: mjr38@cornell.edu
AB  - Scientific research has come to dominate many American universities. Even with growing external support, increasingly the costs of scientific research are being funded out of internal university funds. Our paper explains why this is occuring, presents estimates of the magnitudes of start-up cost packages being provided to scientists and engineers and then uses panel data to estimate the impact of the growing cost of science on student/faculty ratios, faculty salaries and undergraduate tuition.We find that universities whose own expenditures on research are growing the most rapidly, ceteris paribus, have had the greatest increase in student faculty ratios and, in the private sector, higher tuition increases. Thus, undergraduate students bear part of the cost of increased institutional expenditures on research.
ER  -