CHERI was established in the fall of 1998 to provide a vehicle for interdisciplinary research on higher education. Faculty and administrators affiliated with CHERI come from 5 different Cornell colleges and other academic institutions around the world. CHERI's current research interests include the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions, the growing costs and importance of science to universities, the financial challenges facing public higher education, the changing nature of the faculty, governance in academic institutions, improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences, improving persistance rates in STEM Field majors, and reducing inequality in access to higher education. CHERI is funded by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies (USA) Inc., the TIAA-CREF Institute, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Manuscripts from 2011
The Cornell Staff Retirement Incentive Program, Kenneth T. Whelan, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Kevin Hallock, and Ronald L. Seeber
Manuscripts from 2010
Analysis of the Workforce and Workplace for Rheumatology, and the Research Activities of Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers, Claude Desjardins, E. William St. Clair, and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Financing and Restructuring Doctoral Education in the Future, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Rethinking the Professoriate, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Do Trustees and Administrators Matter? Diversifying the Faculty Across Gender Lines, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Mirinda L. Martin, Joyce B. Main, and Thomas Eisenberg
Persistence of Women and Minorities in STEM Field Majors: Is it the School That Matters?, Amanda L. Griffith
Organize to Organize: The Case of a Successful Long-Haul Campaign for Collective Bargaining Rights, Kevin M. Kniffin
Who Succeeds in STEM Studies? An Analysis of Binghamton University Undergraduate Students, Edward C. Kokkelenberg and Eshna Sinha
Governor’s Choice: Gender Composition of Trustee Boards at Public Universities, Mirinda L. Martin
The Impact of Class Size and Number of Students on Outcomes in Higher Education, James Monks and Robert Schmidt
The Effect of Instructor Race and Gender on Student Persistence in STEM Fields, Joshua Price
Attrition in STEM Fields at a Liberal Arts College: The Importance of Grades and Pre-Collegiate Preferences, Kevin Rask
Using the Community College to Control College Costs: How Much Cheaper Is It?, Richard M. Romano and Yenni M. Djajalaksana
Measuring the Cost of a College Degree: A Case Study of a SUNY Community College, Richard M. Romano, Regina Losinger, and Tim Millard
Do Expenditures Other Than Instructional Expenditures Affect Graduation and Persistence Rates in American Higher Education, Douglas A. Webber and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Manuscripts from 2009
The Scope and Scale of Clinical Research Accomplished by Rheumatologists Early in Their Careers, Claude Desjardins, E. William St. Clair M.D., and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Demystifying Endowments, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Keeping up With the Joneses: Institutional Changes Following the Adoption of a Merit Aid Policy, Amanda L. Griffith
Building Knowledge Stocks: The Role of State Higher-Education Policies, Jeffrey A. Groen
Job Stability Among U.S. University Presidents, James Monks
How Do Teachers Improve? The Relative Importance of Specific and General Human Capital, Ben Ost
The Effects of Higher Admission Standards on NCAA Student-Athletes: An Analysis of Proposition 16, Joshua Price
Recent Trends in Funding for the Academic Humanities and Their Implications, Harriet Zuckerman and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Manuscripts from 2008
Last Lecture, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Highly Cited Leaders and the Performance of Research Universities, Amanda H. Goodall
Determinants of Grades, Persistence and Major Choice for Low-Income and Minority Students, Amanda L. Griffith
The Efficiency of Private Universities As Measured By Graduation Rates, Edward C. Kokkelenberg, Eshna Sinha, John D. Porter, and Gary L. Blose
Community College Transfer Students’ Probabilities of Baccalaureate Receipt as a Function of their Prevalence in Four-Year Colleges and Departments, Andrew W. Nutting
Can We Test for Bias in Scientific Peer-Review?, Andrew J. Oswald
Mortality and Immortality: The Nobel Prizes as an Experiment Into the Effect of Status Upon Longevity, Matthew D. Rablen and Andrew J. Oswald
College Football Games and Crime, Daniel I. Rees and Kevin T. Schnepel
Manuscripts from 2007
Policy Considerations for Enhancing Student Access and Persistence in a World in Which Tuition Keeps Rising, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
The Economics of Tuition and Fees in American Higher Education, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
The Future of Government Financing of Higher Education, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Can’t Get Here from There: The Decision to Apply to a Selective Institution, Amanda L. Griffith and Donna S. Rothstein
A Little Now for a Lot Later: A Look at a Texas Advanced Placement Incentive Program, Clement (Kirabo) Jackson
Diffusion of Common Application Membership and Admissions Outcomes at American Colleges and Universities, Albert Yung-Hsu Liu, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, and Jesenka Mrdjenovic
What Determines Employment of Part-Time Faculty in Higher Education Institutions?, Xiangmin Liu and Liang Zhang
Manuscripts from 2006
Doctoral Education and Academic Research (in India), Arkadev Chatterjea and Satya P. Moulik
Transfer College Quality and Student Performance, Angela K. Dills and Rey Hernández-Julián
Equity and Efficiency of Community College Appropriations: The Role of Local Financing, Alicia C. Dowd and John L. Grant
The Graduate Education Initiative: Description and Preliminary Findings, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Harriet Zuckerman, Jeffrey Groen, and Sharon M. Brucker
Does it Take an Expert to Lead Experts? An Empirical Study of Business School Deans, Amanda H. Goodall
The Effects of Class Size on Student Grades at a Public University, Edward C. Kokkelenberg, Michael Dillon, and Sean M. Christy
Understanding the Racial Disparity in Graduation Rates at a Large Ivy League University, Marquise J. McGraw
Money Changes Everything: Funding Shocks and Optimal Admissions and Financial Aid Policies in Higher Education, Matthew G. Nagler
Does a Spouse Slow You Down? Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes, Joseph Price
Gender Differences in the Response to Competition, Joseph Price
Citizenship, Gender, and Racial Differences in the Publishing Success Of Graduate Students and Young Academics, Joseph Price and Joshua Price
Does Public Funding for Higher Education Matter?, Liang Zhang
Faculty Employment and R&D Expenditures at Research Universities, Liang Zhang and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Manuscripts from 2005
Quest for Knowledge and Pursuit of Grades: Information, Course Selection, and Grade Inflation at an Ivy League School, Talia Bar and Asaf Zussman
Community College Revenue Disparities: What Accounts for an Urban College Deficit?, Alicia C. Dowd
Going Broke by Degree: A Review Essay, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Graduate Education, Innovation and Federal Responsibility , Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Key Issues Facing Trustees of National Research Universities in the Decade Ahead, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
The Changing Nature of the Faculty and Faculty Employment Practices, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
The Perfect Storm and the Privatization of Public Higher Education, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
The SUNY Tuition Guarantee Proposal, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Declining PhD Attainment of Graduates of Selective Private Academic Institutions, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Jeffrey A. Groen, and Matthew P. Nagowski
Inside the Black Box of Doctoral Education: What Program Characteristics Influence Doctoral Students’ Attrition and Graduation Probabilities?, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, George H. Jakubson, Jeffrey Groen, Eric So, and Joseph Price
Why Do Field Differentials In Average Faculty Salaries Vary Across Universities?, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Marquise McGraw, and Jesenka Mrdjenovic
Crafting a Class: The Trade Off Between Merit Scholarships and Enrolling Lower-Income Students, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Liang Zhang, and Jared M. Levin
Should Top Universities Be Led By Top Researchers and Are They? A Citations Analysis , Amanda H. Goodall
The Influence of the U.S. News and World Report Collegiate Rankings on the Matriculation Decision of High-Ability Students: 1995-2004, Amanda Griffith and Kevin Rask
Program Design and Student Outcomes in Graduate Education, Jeffrey Groen, George H. Jakubson, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Scott Condie, and Albert Y. Liu
The Effects of Class Size on Student Achievement in Higher Education, E. C. Kokkelenberg, Michael Dillon, and Sean M. Christy
Title IX Compliance and Preference for Men in College Admissions, James Monks
Relative Tuition Levels and the Educational Focus of First-Time Fulltime Community College Students , Andrew Nutting
Do Community College Students Benefit When Transferring with Other Transfers? A Cross-Section Peer Effects Analysis, Andrew W. Nutting
Marriage and Graduate Student Outcomes, Joseph Price
If Community College Students Are So Poor Why Do Only 16.9% Of Them Receive Pell Grants? , Richard M. Romano and Timothy Millard
Do Measures of College Quality Matter? The Effect of College Quality on Graduates’ Earnings, Liang Zhang
Manuscripts from 2004
Gender Equity in Intercollegiate Athletics: Determinants of Title IX Compliance, Deborah J. Anderson, John J. Cheslock, and Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Changes in the Academic Labor Market for Economists, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Involving Undergraduates in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake PhD Study in Economics, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Key Issues Currently Facing American Higher Education, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
The Future of Affirmative Action, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Why Universities Need Institutional Researchers More Than They Realize?, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?, Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang
The Changing Nature of Faculty Employment, Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Liang Zhang
Understanding Faculty Out-of-Class Interaction with Undergraduate Students at a Research University, Marne K. Einarson and Marne E. Clarkberg
The Changing Composition of American-Citizen PhDs, Jeffrey A. Groen and Michael J. Rizzo
Union and Union Threat Premiums Among Graduate Student Stipends, Albert Y. Liu
Public versus Private University Presidents Pay Levels and Structure , James Monks
The Relative Earnings of Contingent Faculty in Higher Education , James Monks
Associate Professor Turnover at America’s Public and Private Institutions of Higher Education, Matthew Nagowski
Time-of-Transfer and the Outcomes of Attending a Four-Year College: Evidence from SUNY, Andrew W. Nutting
A (Less Than) Zero Sum Game? State Funding for Public Education: How Public Higher Education Institutions Have Lost, Michael J. Rizzo
The Public Interest in Higher Education, Michael J. Rizzo
Post-Baccalaureate Wage Growth within Four Years of Graduation: The Effects of College Quality and College Major, Scott L. Thomas and Liang Zhang
Advance to Graduate Education: The Effect of College Quality and Undergraduate Majors, Liang Zhang
Crowd Out or Opt Out: The Changing Landscape of Doctorate Production in American Universities, Liang Zhang
Manuscripts from 2003
Faculty Productivity in Supervising Doctoral Students’ Dissertations at Cornell University, Peter M. Crosta and Iris G. Packman
Econometric Studies of Higher Education, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Financing Higher Education Institutions in the 21st Century, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Method or Madness? Inside the USNWR College Rankings, Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Why Do School District Budget Referenda Fail?, Ronald G. Ehrenberg, Randy A. Ehrenberg, Christopher L. Smith, and Liang Zhang
Changes in Faculty Composition Within the State University of New York System: 1985-2001, Ronald G. Ehrenberg and Daniel B. Klaff