University funding policies should be in principle determined by the aims of university education. The practical difficulty is that universities provide a range of benefits, many of which are difficult to quantify, to both individuals and society, and the aims vary over time. There is a general...

A model of education where the distribution of innate abilities is the source of heterogeneity is investigated. Public and private education models are investigated and compared. Human capital follows a first order Markov process which is shown to converge to a unique stationary distribution in...

In this paper we report the findings of an evaluation of the influence of collaborative problem-solving (CPS hereafter) on student attitudes and learning in economics tutorials.

This paper investigates the effects on income and its distribution of heterogenous preferences for education expenditures. Models of private and public education are studied and compared. Public education expenditures are determined through majority vote. Equilibria for both models are...

This paper draws on the work of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and presents a new method for examining the distribution of the benefits of growth in developing countries. The method allows one to present decompositions in the form of cumulative distribution functions, Lorenz curves and...

The distributional implications of different forms of financing for investment in human capital are investigated. An overlapping generations model which incorporates human capital is employed.

The impact of crop loss on savings, expenditure and labour supply behaviour of Indonesian households is studied using data from the 1993 Indonesian Family Life Survey. The data are unique in that they contain self-reported informaiton on crop loss and on household responses to crop loss. 65,1...

There has been a substantial increase in the number of overseas students in Australia over the last decade. This raises the question of whether the costs of providing the higher education, in addition to that provided for domestic students, are likely to be met by fee revenue.

This paper examines the effects of individual, household and community characteristics on two aspects of fertility among South African women - the age at first conception and the number of pregnancies. We find that education has a significant effect in pushing back the age at first conception...