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Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …-tested financial aid on the outcomes of students who have already enrolled in college. To do so, we exploit a unique non …
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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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The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher … students who can be expected to work abroad after graduation with high probability. This paper analyzes whether and how student …, this points into the direction that the larger the share of foreign students among all students in a country, the more a …
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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...
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administrative records about high school, college admission, college attendance and tax returns. Students with score just above the … admission threshold have 52% higher yearly income with respect to just-below-threshold students. This premium is equivalent to a … explore the counterfactual college career of not admitted students and the potential mechanisms underlying the estimated …
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This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these...
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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...
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transnational transfer for mobile students is implemented. With endogenous income taxation, we show that the strength of fiscal …
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In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host … country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … benefits accrue in this host country. A higher education quality raises in turn the human capital of the returning students. As …
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We analyse how institutional and political decisions are intertwined. Citizens who differ in their mobility and ability vote first on labour market integration and afterwards on education policy. The institutional decision on integration influences the succeeding education policy. More...
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