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...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the distributional impact of public higher edu- cation 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 im- pact. The use of a...

For more than 150 years, many economists have assumed public subsidies on higher education to have a regressive distributional effect. The German debate on this issue is kept alive by many empirical studies. Most of them confirm the thesis of a \"perverse distribution of income\" (Milton...

The impact of fiscal activity on human capital formation has often been analyzed with regard to the expenditure side of the budget, i.e. the subsidization of (higher) education. Recent contributions have increasingly focused on the effect of taxation on human capital accumulation. Less attention...

A persistent controversy in the economics of higher education is the distributional consequences of tuition-fee subsidies. There are two points at issue. First, subsidies affect income distribution between rich and poor households, analyzed by cross-sectional studies. Second, there may also be...

Se evalúa el impacto redistributivo de las políticas educativas en Bogotá mediante elAnálisis de Incidencia del Beneficio. A pesar que los hogares son autónomos conrespecto a la elección entre la educación oficial y no oficial, la provisión pública de laeducación genera fuertes...

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...

Information about public education in Bogotá is used in this article to evaluate the redistributive impact of subsidies using incidence analysis on income and expenditure by levels of strata and localities. Results indicate that education subsidies and new public policies have had strong...

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...

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...