American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
The Industrial Organization of Online Education
American Economic Review
vol. 104,
no. 5, May 2014
(pp. 519–22)
Abstract
Online education has flexibility and cost advantages over in-class teaching and these advantages will grow with improvements in information technology. We consider likely market structures given that the quality aspects of online education exhibit endogenous fixed costs. Concentration in the market for courses could be high, as it is currently in the market for textbooks. The not-for-profit sector will exhibit lower costs, lower concentration, and possibly zero price.Citation
Cowen, Tyler, and Alex Tabarrok. 2014. "The Industrial Organization of Online Education." American Economic Review, 104 (5): 519–22. DOI: 10.1257/aer.104.5.519Additional Materials
JEL Classification
- I21 Analysis of Education
- I23 Higher Education; Research Institutions