Growing attention to federal deficits indicates that Congress will more carefully scrutinize  the efficiency of taxpayer support for farm programs. What constitutes an efficient use of taxpayer money, however, is open to various interpretations. 

College study time fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003; the decline is not explained by changes in student work status, parental education, major choice, or the type of institution students attended.

At this AEI event, experts will discuss the economic burden of ethanol subsidies and the efficiency of Title I of the Farm Bill.

Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks explore a decrease in the time spent studying on college campuses and its implications for students' future success.

Low grading standards in university education departments will negatively affect the accumulation of skills for prospective teachers and contribute to a larger culture of low standards for educators.

The people running America's colleges and universities have long thought they were exempt from the laws of supply and demand, but it has become increasingly clear that the higher education market is a bubble.

Press release/summary for The 2007 Farm Bill and Beyond

Since the Great Depression, lobbying by farmers has proved particularly lucrative but has threatened to detach agricultural production from the objective of efficiently producing food for consumers. Today, farm policy consists of an array of subsidies, regulations, spending programs, and land-use restrictions which are widely blamed for the increased cost...