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Reforming Youth Allowance: The “Independent-at- Home” Category

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

recent Review of Australian Higher Education (2008). Specifically, it seems to be the case that many students are able to …

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Thailand’s Student Loan Fund: An Analysis of Interest Rate Subsidies and Repayment Hardships

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha; Polsiri, Piruna; … - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

supply responses to tax policy can explain differences in aggregate labour supply and years of education across countries. …

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Income Contingent Loans for Higher Education: International Reform

Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

It is well known that higher education financing involves uncertainty and risk with respect to students’ future … education. The historically most common response to this market failure — a government guarantee to repay student loans to banks …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004970067

Income Contingent Student Loans for Thailand: Alternatives Compared

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanantha - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

This paper illustrates the extent of implicit taxpayer subsidies under four possible income contingent loan (ICL) arrangements for Thailand: TICAL, implemented in 2007 only, a variant of TICAL, and two alternative ICL schemes. The implicit taxpayer subsidy calculated with respect to average...

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International Dimensions in the Financing of Higher Education

Chapman, Bruce; Tulip, Peter - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

This chapter compares and contrasts international experience with respect to higher education financing. The size and …

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An Analysis of FEE-HELP in the Vocational Education and Training Sector

Chapman, Bruce; Rodrigues, Mark; Ryan, Chris - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2008

The public vocational education and training (VET) system is now one of the few areas in Australia’s tertiary education …-optimal educational outcomes to the extent that prospective students reject a VET education on the basis of short-term financial … financial instrument based on the Higher Education Contribution Scheme (HECS)). It is argued that income contingent loans of …

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Repayment Burdens with US College Loans

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaewa, Kiatanantha - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

There is a significant and on-going unease with, and debate concerning, the state of US college loans. One of the most important questions relates to so-called “repayment burdens”, the financial difficulties associated with repayments. This paper examines the issue from both theoretical and...

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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees

Chapman, Bruce; Sinning, Mathias - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2010

Due to the unknown future economic situation of students, private banks are unwilling to provide student loans in the absence of collateral. This market failure requires government intervention to prevent socially sub-optimal and regressive outcomes. Income contingent loans, whose repayment...

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HECS System Changes: Impact on Students

Beer, Gillian; Chapman, Bruce - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2004

This paper examines the impact of changes to Australia’s student financing system on various hypothetical students who choose the Government’s proposed deferred payment options, HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP. The present values of their HECS repayments under the existing (2004) system are compared...

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