Am 9. Dezember 2010 beschloss das britische Unterhaus, die bisherige Obergrenze der Studiengebühren, die die Universitäten in England und Wales pro Jahr erheben dürfen, anzuheben. Seit der Einführung der Gebühren im Jahr 1998 stieg damit der Betrag auf das Neunfache des ursprünglichen...

Bei Public Private Partnerships (PPP) spielt der Wirtschaftlichkeitsvergleich eine entscheidendeRolle. Er dient zur Ermittlung von Effizienzvorteilen und Einsparungen einerRealisierungsvariante (öffentlicher Eigenbau oder privatwirtschaftlich) und als Argumentationsgrundlagesowie Rechtfertigung...

We partner with Ecuador's government to implement a centralized school choice system using a Deferred Acceptance algorithm in Manta. Our study evaluates the welfare impact of transitioning from a distance-based assignment system to one that incorporates families' preferences. Results show that...

Research Question - Is there a link between the investment in human capital, measured by the average gross salary in the pre-university education system and the student-teacher ratio together with the results obtained by students in tests? Motivation - In any society, the work done by man to...

This paper discusses pathways to gradually bring about changes in the Student Financing Fund (Fies) with the aim of enabling a broader, more equitable, effective, and efficient student financing model in Brazil. Proposed reforms encompass three dimensions: i) access and enrolment; ii)...

The affordability of public higher education and, by extension, public higher education funding, is an important concern to prospective students and their parents as well as to policymakers. Our study examines the allocation of constant dollar per-student state appropriations across four-year or...

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from the French national centralized platform. We employ a difference-in-differences approach following a change in the income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find...

This study examines how student aid eligibility influences application decisions to higher education using administrative data from France. We study the impact of a change in income thresholds for aid eligibility. We find that aid eligibility did not have a uniform effect on students'...

The aim of the current research is to examine the effect of trust-based collaboration and idealized transformational leadership to the knowledge sharing. It also examined the effect of contingent reward transactional leadership to trust-based collaboration and knowledge sharing. Data used in the...

The aim of this research was to evaluate the impact of the financial aid programme at a private university in Venezuela on the outcome variables of post-graduation or social mobility, such as remuneration at the time of graduation and at present, and the probability of entering the labour...