The Public Mission of the Public Law School Library

Lenz, Connie

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2101234

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“…The primary measures of interest in this study are student, administrator, and employer effects postacquisition, as captured in measures of admissions selectivity (a school’s total number of admits divided by the total number of applicants), tuition price, student job outcomes, and bar passage rates. Tuition is full-time nonresident tuition, given that the subsidies provided by law schools at public institutions are in many cases not distinct from merit scholarships (Stake, 2006) and that some law schools at public universities in the United States are in fact self-sufficient, quasi-private institutions (Lenz, 2013). Job outcomes measured are high-status jobs—those at large law firms and federal clerkship placements—as well as a measure of total employment.…”

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Institutional Effects of Higher Education Acquisitions: The Case of Texas A&M School of Law

Lyke

2018

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This study analyzes the acquisition of the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law by Texas A&M University. In particular, institution-level effects are examined by measuring selectivity, tuition prices, job outcomes, and bar passage rate before and after the law school changed names from a hyperregional institution to one of statewide eminence and national recognition. Difference-in-differences estimations and synthetic control analysis are used to measure effects of the acquisition on various institutional metrics. Results show an increase on school selectivity and null effects on tuition price and job outcomes, suggesting heterogeneity in response to the acquisition. Implications for higher education and legal education, specifically, are discussed.

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confidence: 99%