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Performance-Related Funding of Universities – Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
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Risky college enrollment, dropout, and student debt forgiveness
Kaganovič, Michail I.; Zilcha, Itzhak - 2025
The paper analyzes the effects of two kinds of college education subsidies: unconditional tuition discounts and targeted forgiveness of student loans on student college enrollment and completion or dropout decisions. We focus on students’ imperfect knowledge of their academic ability at the...
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Performance-related funding of universities : does more competition lead to grade inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516880
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Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand
Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2013
The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...
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Performance-related funding of universities : does more competition lead to grade inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
increased competition between universities causes grade inflation. -- Grade inflation ; higher education funding ; university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009580237
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Persistent inefficiency in the higher education sector : evidence from Germany
Gralka, Sabine - 2016
term and residual. This implies that increasing efficiency requires a comprehensive change of the university structure. …
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Born under a lucky star : financial aid, college completion, labor supply, and credit constraints
Denning, Jeffrey T. - 2017
during college. I find that additional financial aid accelerates graduation for university seniors because they increase …
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Competition between state universities
Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. -- university competition ; research ; tuition fees …
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The transient and persistent efficiency of Italian and German universities : a stochastic frontier analysis
Agasisti, Tommaso; Gralka, Sabine Marlene - 2017
term according to the two management levels each university is confronted with. Utilizing a recent advancement in the …
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …
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