Search Results - subject:"public higher education"

On the Optimal Allocation of Students and Resources in a System of Higher Education

Sallee, James; Resch, Alexandra; Courant, Paul - In: Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 8 (2008) 1, pp. 1871-1871

We model the social planner's decision to establish universities and populate them with students and resources, given a distribution of student ability and a limited pool of resources for higher education. If student ability and school resources are complements, and if there is a fixed cost to...

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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending: Evidence from the German States

Oberndorfer, Ulrich; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

a negative relationship between demographic aging and spending on public higher education. In contrast to the hypothesis … under conservative parties or a coalition between social democrats and conservatives spend more on public higher education …

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