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Testing Means-Tested Aid
Murphy, Richard; Wyness, Gill - 2016
Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …
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The evolution of public spending on higher education in a democracy
Haupt, Alexander - 2005
This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies...
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University Dropout Problems and Solutions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021
Frequent non-completion in optional education can be e¢ cient if dropouts optimally exercise an option rationally foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where enrollment resolves more pronounced individual uncertainty...
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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education
Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2014
The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad after...
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Keeping It in the Family: Student to Degree Match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luís - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
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Money matters: evidence from a large-scale Randomized field experiment with vouchers for adult training
Messer, Dolores; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2009
,400 people were issued with a training voucher which they were entitled to use in payment for a training course of their choice … aware at any time that they were part of an experiment. The experiment shows that the voucher had a significant causal …
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Effects of adult education vouchers on the labor market: Evidence from a randomized field experiment
Schwerdt, Guido; Messer, Dolores; Woessmann, Ludger; … - 2011
education in Switzerland. We find no significant average effects of voucher-induced adult education on earnings, employment, and … from adult education, but least likely to use the voucher. The findings cast doubt on the effectiveness of existing … untargeted voucher programs in promoting labor market outcomes through adult education. …
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Who is afraid of school choice?
Diem, Andrea; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2011
This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...
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The Returns to Elite College Education: A Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
I take advantage of a sharp discontinuity in the probability of admission to an elite university at the admission score threshold, to estimate causal returns to college education quality. I use a newly constructed dataset, which combines individual administrative records about high school,...
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Designing Efficient College and Tax Policies
Findeisen, Sebastian; Sachs, Dominik - 2015
The total social benefits of college education exceed the private benefits because the government receives a share of the monetary returns in the form of income taxes. We study the policy implications of this fiscal externality in an optimal dynamic tax framework. Using a variational approach we...
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