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Regression analyses were conducted on environmental determinants of two types of higher education spending. As hypothesized, those states which were able to expend large amounts of money per full-time student were not the same states who spend generously in relation to the college-age population.
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Feasley, C.E. A quantitative exploration into environmental determinants of two types of higher education spending. Res High Educ 11, 343–352 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00975624
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