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...though, Harvard development officials like Boland have been working to come up with their own predictions. Having completed an internal study of the dilemma just last week, they say they are convinced that studies such as the Urban Institute's overlook other key factors. According to Thomas M. Reardon, the University's director of development, the first oversight is economic: Just as taxes will go down, so disposable income will rise. Especially in the 50-per-cent-and-under tax brackets, Reardon insists, this bank balance boost will offset the higher "cost" of contributing to Harvard...
...Charles T. Clotfelter, co-author of the Urban Institute's study and an associate professor of public-policy studies and economics at Duke University, counters Reardon's logic with the assertion that his model takes disposable income into account. "It does moderate the decrease, but the [cost] effect overwhelms that," he says flatly, explaining that the study relied on a decade's worth of data that consistently show contributors are far more sensitive to changes in tax structure than to fluctuations in their disposable income...
That same logic is precisely the reasoning behind Reardon's assertion that the Urban Institute and other economic researchers have ignored some key figures in their pessimistic equations. For one thing, Reardon points out, Harvardians are loyal...
...Reardon praised Title IX as instrumental in improving women's athletics across the country. saying "without it, women's athletics would not be where they are today." He added that the does not expect a large-scale decline in the quality of women's athletics programs...
...Reardon specifically praised the Ivy League for its level of women's athletics. "Ivy League schools in general have been much more committed to having excellent athletic opportunities for women than other schools, and that will continue to be the case whether or not Title IX is knocked...