Coming up after the break, more on what's been driving the cost of college tuition. We also ask chris paxon about the growing gender gap on college campuses. Our entire archive can be found on any podcast at or at freconomics dot com. Coming soon, off leash, a dog show, unlike any dog show that ever was.
Enrollment is down for the first time in memory, and critics complain college is too expensive, too elitist, and too politicized. The economist Chris Paxson — who happens to be the president of Brown University — does not agree. (Part 3 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)