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The political economics of higher education finance for mobile individuals : conference paper

Borck, Rainald; Übelmesser, Silke; Wimbersky, Martin - 2013

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets … subsidize higher education costs or whether to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibrium, in both regions a … opt for full tuition finance. Interestingly, the higher the return probability, the smaller are the equilibrium subsidy …

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Financing Studies: Financial Support schemes for students in selected countries

Schumann, Christopher - Universitätsbibliothek Wuppertal, University Library - 2006

Most countries around the world offer financial support for students, in the sphere of higher education. The general goal is to give young people who have the abilities and the willingness to study access to higher education, despite a lack of their own financial means. But ensuring equality of...

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Income-tested college financial aid and labor disincentives

Darolia, Rajeev - 2015

Working has become commonplace among college students; however, this activity can have unexpected financial consequences. Federal formulas implicitly tax the amount of financial aid students are eligible to receive by as much as 50 cents for each marginal dollar of income. This tax creates an...

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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...

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Student and graduate migration and its effect on the financing of higher education

Haussen, Tina; Übelmesser, Silke - 2014

The number of tertiary students enrolled outside their home country has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign students who can be expected to work abroad after...

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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education

Haussen, Tina - 2015

The number of international students worldwide has almost doubled in the last decade. In higher education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country's labour force might not be willing to subsidize the education of international students who might move away after graduation. This paper...

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Substitution effects in college admissions

Gandil, Mikkel Høst - 2021

I show how local supply changes create ripple effects in a national educational market. Admitting an applicant to a program will free up a slot to be filled at her next-best alternative. To investigate such substitution effects I re-engineer the centralized admission system of the Danish...

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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...

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On Cost-Sharing, Tuition Fees and Income Contingent Loans for Universal Higher Education : A New Contract Between University, Student and State?

Armbruster, Chris - 2008

, thirdly, an assessment of national tuition fee systems as a way of sponsoring mass and universal participation. The Ivy League … and the California Master Plan as well as the tuition fee systems in Australia, New Zealand and England have addressed …

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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 …

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