Canada’s federal and provincial governments spend a lot of money subsidizing postsecondary students. Tuition and education/textbook tax credits, in particular, cost the federal government around $1.6 billion in 2012 – a sum much greater than the net cost of the Canada Student Loan Program....

Bildung ist eine der zentralen Aufgaben der Bundesländer. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Ausbildungskosten in den 16 Bundesländern verglichen. Dazu werden mit Hilfe von amtlichen Daten die häufigsten Bildungskarrieren konstruiert. Ein Schwerpunkt der Untersuchung liegt dabei auf der...

This study was prepared by Gabriela Schütz while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2008 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The topic of this study is an econometric analysis...

We apply theories of capital market failure to analyze optimal financing of risky higher education. In the market solution, students can only finance their education through debt. There is underinvestment in human capital, because some students with socially profitable investments in human...

A tanulmány azt vizsgálja, hogyan alakult az egyes oktatási fokozatok egyéni és társadalmi megtérülési rátája, valamint az egyes végzettségek megszerzésének támogatottsága 1971ben, 1986ban és 1993ban. Az eredmények azt mutatják, hogy 1971 és 1993 között a...

We present a tractable stochastic endogenous growth model that explains how social capital influences economic development. In our model, social capital increases citizens' awareness of government activity. Hence, it alleviates the electoral incentives to under- invest in education, whose...

Este trabalho utiliza o modelo Network-DEA para avaliar a eficiência técnica do gasto público com educação básica nas Unidades da Federação para os anos de 2001, 2003 e 2005. É admitido que o ensino público seja gerado através de um processo produtivo ocorrendo em dois estágios. O...