Higher education multi-product cost functions are estimated for the public and private sectors disaggregated by research, comprehensive, baccalaureate, and associate level institutions. The output mix incorporates professional school teaching output, in addition to undergraduate and graduate...

This paper presents a simplified methodology for determining the economically optimal size of a solar hot-water system installed in a commercial building. For relatively broad climatological areas, the methodology can be used to construct universal economic optimization paths. These paths enable...

In recent years we have witnessed governmental attempts to accelerate the stock demand for energy-saving durables with financial incentives implemented through the tax mechanism. At the federal level, income tax credits for the purchase of energy-saving durable stocks were introduced through the...

This article employs panel data on more than 1000 US public colleges and universities to investigate the effect of private giving on state government funding. Government free riding is at question and is found to be active in that private donations partially displace state government funding at...

This paper compares operating cost efficiencies of public historically black colleges and universities to those of predominately white institutions in the USA. Panel data spans four academic years, 2005 to 2006 through 2008 to 2009. Cost frontiers are estimated with an inefficiency component...