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Working Time Regulation, Unequal Lifetimes and Fairness

Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2016

uniform working time reductions, when uncompensated (i.e. constant hourly wage), can reduce inequalities in realized lifetime …-lived better off, but at the cost of raising inequalities. Then, we characterize the ex post egalitarian optimum, where the …-best egalitarian argument for age-dependent working time regulation, which can make the short-lived better off and reduce inequalities …

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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines

Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015

We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...

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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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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion

Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - 2016

We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...

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Foreign Peer Effects and STEM Major Choice

Anelli, Massimo; Shih, Kevin; Williams, Kevin - 2017

Since the 1980s the United States has faced growing disinterest and high attrition from STEM majors. Over the same period, foreign-born enrollment in U.S. higher education has increased steadily. This paper examines whether foreign-born peers affect the likelihood American college students...

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The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Wößmann, Ludger - 2019

Public preferences for charging tuition are important for determining higher education finance. To test whether public support for tuition depends on information and design, we devise several survey experiments in representative samples of the German electorate (N19,500). The electorate is...

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Does Ignorance of Economic Returns and Costs Explain the Educational Aspiration Gap? Evidence from Representative Survey Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Wößmann, Ludger - 2018

The gap in university enrollment by parental education is large and persistent in many countries. In our representative survey, 74 percent of German university graduates, but only 36 percent of those without a university degree favor a university education for their children. The latter are more...

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How to Measure Research Efficiency in Higher Education? Research Grants vs. Publication Output

Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018

An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

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The Role of Colleges within the Higher Education Sector

Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2018

Over the past decades the college sectors in the higher education systems of many Western countries have expanded their capacities massively. This happened even though colleges have been at a competitive disadvantage with universities which are publicly subsidized, while colleges must...

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Financing higher education and labor mobility

Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2008

This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...

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