Freakonomics on College Part 2: Costs and Benefits
Last week, we featured Part I on the Freakonomics episode on the economics of college. This week Freakonomics discussed the costs and benefits of college education with students, economics, professors and recent grads.
Here is a sampling of some of those guests interviewed:
This episode looks at tuition costs and also tries to figure out exactly how the college experience makes people so much better off. . . .
While there are a lot of different voices in this episode, including current and recent college grads, the episode is also a bit heavy on economists (d’oh!), including:
+ David Card at Berkeley, whose education papers are here;
+ Ronald Ehrenberg at Cornell, whose recent paper “American Higher Education in Transition” discusses tuition inflation;
+ Betsey Stevenson; her blog contributions are here, and she tweets too;
+ Justin Wolfers, whose blog writing is here; he too tweets; additionally, he and Stevenson are a matched pair — heading for the University of Michigan, by the way — who also appeared in our “Economist’s Guide to Parenting” podcast, along with daughter Matilda, whom they discuss again in this episode; and:
+ Steve Levitt,
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