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Political economics of higher education finance
Borck, Rainald; Wimbersky, Martin - 2009
We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households who are heterogeneous in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271868
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Ontario post-secondary education funding policies : perverse incentives and unintended consequences
Beach, Charles M.; Milne, Frank - 2019
This paper offers some observations on the funding of post-secondary schools in Ontario and Canada more broadly. Specifically, it notes how limited public funding for domestic students has provided strong incentives for PSE schools to attract full fee-paying international students, whose numbers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012183603
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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior
Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017
How does the financial aid allocation mechanism affect student behavior? We provide a framework for quantifying the impact of financial aid on student debt, academic capital, and labor market outcomes. We specify and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model of simultaneous education, work, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796430
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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions : the aftermath of a German quasi-experiment
Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states … on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public … observations before, during, and after the tuition treatment. While no previous study has covered the full period of the policy or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014504778
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Higher Education : Does Public Expenditure Increase Enrollment?
Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Guenther - 2009
This paper evaluates the effects of public education expenditure on student enrollment in tertiary education. We use a cross-section of 132 countries to demonstrate that public expenditure on primary and secondary education positively affects tertiary enrollment rates, while the generosity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202457
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Expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation
Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264213
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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation
Poutvaara, Panu - 2007
This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776006
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
whether providing information about the existence and the conditions of the training voucher had an effect on actual training … exists at the time of the experiment. The information intervention informed a random sample of eligible employees by … telephone about the program details and conditions. The results indicate that the information significantly increased treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455040
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
whether providing information about the existence and the conditions of the training voucher had an effect on actual training … exists at the time of the experiment. The information intervention informed a random sample of eligible employees by … telephone about the program details and conditions. The results indicate that the information significantly increased treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458893
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Information, financial aid and training participation : evidence from a randomized field experiment
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - 2016
whether providing information about the existence and the conditions of the training voucher had an effect on actual training … exists at the time of the experiment. The information intervention informed a random sample of eligible employees by … telephone about the program details and conditions. The results indicate that the information significantly increased treated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452716