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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design … upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases public support for tuition by 18 percentage points. The treatment … turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012798216
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design … upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases public support for tuition by 18 percentage points. The treatment … turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012804277
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design … upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases public support for tuition by 18 percentage points. The treatment … turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013191568
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Income contingency and the electorate's support for tuition
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012820212
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An International Comparison of Voting by Committees
Jung, Alexander - 2011
) Taylor-type rules and using real-time information available from published inflation reports and voting records, the paper …This paper provides new empirical evidence on policy-makers' voting patterns on interest rates. Applying (pooled … incoming information. Unconstrained reaction functions that measure the short-term response show that preference heterogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120227
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Whot voted for Brexit? : a comprehensive district-level analysis
Becker, Sascha O.; Fetzer, Thiemo; Novy, Dennis - 2017
voting population were key drivers of the Vote Leave share, in particular their education profiles, their historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646454
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Did austerity cause Brexit?
Fetzer, Thiemo - 2018
Did austerity cause Brexit? This paper shows that the rise of popular support for the UK Independence Party (UKIP), as the single most important correlate of the subsequent Leave vote in the 2016 European Union (EU) referendum, along with broader measures of political dissatisfaction, are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011877825
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The distribution of school funding and inputs in England : 1993 - 2013
Sibieta, Luke - 2015
School funding per pupil increased substantially between 1999-00 and 2012-13 in England. It also became more varied across schools with higher levels of funds targeted at more deprived schools. Real-terms increases in funding per pupil were much larger for the most deprived group of primary and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498395
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Raising Education Achievement and Breaking the Cycle of Inequality in the United Kingdom
Brook, Anne-Marie - 2008
Globalisation, together with skill-biased technical change, is changing the composition of jobs in advanced economies and raising the level of skills required to do them. This has increased the importance of educating a large proportion of the population to much higher standards than in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444051
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Econometrics of valuing income contingent student loans using administrative data : groups of English students
Britton, Jack; Shephard, Neil G.; Erve, Laura van der - 2019
records with information on borrowing, course, and institution linked to offcial tax records that give earnings for up to 11 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011991492