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This paper presents empirical evidence on the distributional effect of public higher education through analysis of a cross-sectional view of West Germany in 1997. In contrast to a widely held hypothesis in economics, our findings do not show evidence for a regressive effect. The use of a...
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In April 2006, the state of Massachusetts passed legislation aimed at achieving near universal health insurance coverage. A key provision of this legislation, and of the national legislation passed in March 2010, is an individual mandate to obtain health insurance. Although previous researchers...
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Policies need not only to be well designed to effectively address market failures, but their parameters also need to be part of agents' information sets. This is illustrated by government student loans in the Netherlands which are intended to alleviate liquidity constraints. Despite generous...
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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...
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The article imports into the legal literature for the first time the full range of single sex education research, from this country and others, and examines sociological research that has been omitted from the debate. Rarely do proponents consider what educational and social effects...
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In the public discourse, education is usually considered as the main vehicle for the promotion of social equality and social mobility. The paper surveys the existing literature and concludes that the relationship between education and inequality in Greece is strong. Inequities are evident at all...
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Although household's education costs in Japan are high relative to other industrial countries, Japanese households have only limited means for securing student loans or setting aside savings for higher education, and this is making the enhancement of mechanisms to obtain education financing an...
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A globalizáció hatásai a felsőoktatási intézmények számára is radikálisan új környezetet teremtettek. Megváltozott az egyetem, az állam és a tudáspiac viszonya - ennek hatására a fejlett országok egyetemei maguk is átalakultak. A felsőoktatásban elindult változások az...
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A szerzőpáros e cikkben - ez év júniusában közreadott könyvük1 folytatásaként - részletesebben bemutatja a felsőoktatás gyenge színvonaláért felelős két fő tényezőt: az oktatók relatív keresetének a rendszerváltás óta bekövetkezett drámai hanyatlását és az...
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Az oktatásfinanszírozási rendszerek részben abban térnek el egymástól, hogy az állam mekkora forrást biztosít az oktatásra, részben pedig abban, hogy azt hogyan osztja meg a különböző oktatási szintek között. Az oktatás állami támogatottsága egyrészt költségeket,...
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