Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress
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DOI: 10.21799/frbp.wp.2024.20
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- Robert Kelchen & Dubravka Ritter & Douglas Webber, 2024. "Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress," NBER Chapters, in: Financing Institutions of Higher Education, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Robert J. Kelchen & Dubravka Ritter & Douglas A. Webber, 2024. "Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress," NBER Working Papers 33216, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Robert Kelchen & Dubravka Ritter & Douglas A. Webber, 2025. "Predicting College Closures and Financial Distress," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2025-003, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
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Keywords
higher education; college; university; enrollment; tuition; revenue; budget; closure; fiscal challenge; demographic cliff;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I2 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2025-01-06 (Big Data)
- NEP-CMP-2025-01-06 (Computational Economics)
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