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A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy
Vodopivec, Milan - 2004
The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost...
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Lifecycle impact of alternative higher education finance systems in Ireland
Flannery, Darragh; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2011
With increasing numbers of young people participating in higher education in Ireland and a heavy reliance of higher education institutions on state funding, the introduction of an alternative finance system for Ireland has been muted over the past number of years. However, no study has been...
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Gambling and the use of credit: an individual and household level analysis
Brown, Sarah; Dickerson, Andy; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - 2010
use of credit, at the individual and household level using representative pooled cross-section data drawn from the UK … Expenditure and Food Surveys (EFS), 2001 to 2007. Gambling and the use of credit are shown to be positively correlated at the … between gambling and the use of credit is remarkably stable across household income. In addition to our household level …
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Aging and attitudes towards strategic uncertainty and competition: An artefactual field experiment in a Swiss bank
Madies, Thierry; Villeval, Marie Claire; Wasmer, Malgorzata - 2012
We study the attitudes of junior and senior employees towards strategic uncertainty and competition, by means of a market entry game inspired by Camerer and Lovallo (1999). Seniors exhibit higher entry rates compared to juniors, especially when earnings depend on relative performance. This...
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Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases...
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Family income and participation in post-secondary education
Corak, Miles; Lipps, Garth; Zhao, John - 2004
The relationship between family income and post-secondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from...
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The Return to a University Education in Great Britain
O'Leary, Nigel C.; Sloane, Peter J. - 2004
In this paper, we estimate the rate of return to first degrees, masters degrees and PhDs in Britain using data from the Labour Force Survey. We estimate returns to broad subject groups and more narrowly defined disciplines, distinguishing returns by gender and attempting to control for...
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
We estimate selection and sorting effects on the evolution of the private return to schooling for college graduates during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed...
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Why Do Students Expect to Stay Longer in College? Evidence from Europe
Brunello, Giorgio; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
We investigate the expected college completion time of European college students by using data from a survey of more than 3000 students in 10 countries. We explain observed excess time to graduation by paying special attention to labor market variables, such as unemployment, wage differentials...
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Public Funding and Enrolment into Higher Education in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Wirz, Aniela - 2002
In this paper we provide evidence for the impact of public funding on enrolment of students in college. We use a panel for European countries and apply instrumental variables techniques to find that public funding for schooling – regardless at what level – does increase college enrolment...
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