In this paper we review recent increases in tuition at public institutions and estimate impacts on enrollment. We use data on all U.S. public 4-year colleges and universities from 1991 to 2006 and illustrate that tuition increased dramatically beginning in the early part of this decade. We examine impacts of such increases on total enrollment and credit hours, and estimate differences by type of institution. We estimate that the average tuition and fee elasticity of total headcount is -0.0958. At the mean, a $100 increase in tuition and fees would lead to a decline in enrollment of about 0.25 percent, with larger effects at Research I universities. We find limited evidence that especially large tuition increases elicit disproportionate enrollment responses.
In laying out the relationship between the prevalence of mental illness and labour force and employment status, Dewa et al. provide the necessary context for this meeting. Think of it: on the order of 25% of all diseases in Canada are attributable to mental illness (Murray and Lopez 1997). Even more troubling, unlike debilitating physical illness mental illness is often at least as common among those in the prime of their working lives as in the elderly. Dewa et al. then illustrate very nicely an implication we can all well understandthat mental illness imposes costs far beyond medical expenses. It is of utmost value that they point out that those costs 26
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