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Student Loans : When is Risk Sharing Desirable?
Eckwert, Bernhard - 2016
In higher education, pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment due to insufficient risk pooling, while pure income-contingent loan funding leads to overinvestment. We analyze whether funding diversity – a market structure in which credit markets coexist alongside income-contingent...
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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education
Haussen, Tina - 2015
The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that … are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students …, we find a significant positive correlation between the share of international students and the private funding share for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032336
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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment
Lochner, Lance - 2013
Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071390
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Student Loans and the Allocation of Graduate Jobs
Cigno, Alessandro - 2015
Higher education is not just a signal of innate ability. At least a certain level of educational achievement (degree level, degree mark) is strictly required to perform a graduate job. School leavers fall into two categories, the rich and the poor. Ability is distributed in the same way in both...
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Does Distance Matter? Tuition Fees and Enrollment of First-Year Students at German Public Universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2021
the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students …
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The Evolution of Public Spending on Higher Education in a Democracy
Haupt, Alexander - 2006
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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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy : Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Bjoern; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315798
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The Effects of Tuition Fees on Transition from High School to University in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin - 2013
This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013081703
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Student and Worker Mobility Under University and Government Competition
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2021
transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316022
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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy: Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013
In January 2005 the German Supreme Court permitted the state governments to charge tuition fees. By exploiting the natural experiment, we examine how government ideology influenced the introduction of tuition fees. The results show that rightwing governments were active in introducing tuition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640656