Academic Standards as Public Goods and Varieties of Free-Rider Behaviour.

Marks, Denton

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Publication Date: 2002

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Academic Standards as Public Goods and Varieties of Free-Rider Behaviour.

Marks, Denton

Education Economics, v10 n2 p145-63 Aug 2002

Explores the manner in which academic standards confer benefit, exhibit public-good characteristics, and elicit free-riding and "underproduction" in various parts of the academic community. Examines the resulting challenge to the maintenance of academic quality and the difficulty of discouraging free-rider behavior. (Contains 32 references.) (Author/PKP)

Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Administration, Admission Criteria, College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Educational Economics, Norms, Research, Universities

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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