You're saying that a lot of students are paying much, much less than the sticker price because there's so much aid. And in fact, a large fraction of students arepaying nothing. It's hard though, because the net price is not published. Can you talk about health care costs as a contributor to college costs over all? I just don't have good data on that.
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.”)