IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/hcx/wpaper/0916.html

Religious penalty in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings

Author

Listed:
  • Robert Baumann

    (Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross)

  • David Chu

    (Department of Economics and Accounting, College of the Holy Cross)

  • Charles Anderton

    (Department of Economics, College of the Holy Cross)

Abstract

Since its debut in 1983, the U.S. News & World Report College Guide has become the premier ‘consumer report’ of higher education. We find that peer assessment, which is the largest component of the U.S. News & World Report ranking function, contains a penalty for religiously affiliated schools that is independent of the other U.S. News & World Report variables and several proxies for quality. Possible explanations of the religious penalty include taste-based discrimination, perceived differences in the quality of the curriculum, and strategic voting by college administrators.

Suggested Citation

  • Robert Baumann & David Chu & Charles Anderton, 2009. "Religious penalty in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings," Working Papers 0916, College of the Holy Cross, Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:hcx:wpaper:0916
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09645290701843699
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:hcx:wpaper:0916. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Victor Matheson (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/deholus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.