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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 …Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518240
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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 …Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013190508
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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 …Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533895
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of public economics 226 (2023), pp. 1-22
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014465018
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Stochastic frontier analysis in higher education : a systematic review
Gralka, Sabine - 2018
This paper provides a systematic review of the literature that employs stochastic frontier analysis to measure the efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with a look at the general development of the literature, before emphasis is laid on the methodical aspects. Focus is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942622
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Challenges to higher education in Canada and Australia
Beach, Charles M.; Milne, Frank - 2018
This paper provides an overview of the higher education sector in Canada, so it can serve as a comparison to that in Australia. It seeks to identify stresses and challenges to this sector in Canada. The study also seeks to offer possible lessons for the direction of higher education policy in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894322
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Taking education to the next level : what can be learned from benchmarking education across economies?
Chun, Natalie; Gentile, Elisabetta - 2020
associated with higher learning outcomes: gross enrollment in secondary school; targeted public information that reveals student … incentives are aligned with learning outcomes; information collection that enables timely, data-driven decision-making; and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181900
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University Funding Reform, Competition and Teaching Quality
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007
This paper explores the impact of university funding reform on teaching quality competition. It shows that a graduate tax with differentiated, but state-regulated fees maximises the higher education surplus, whereas student grants as well as pure and income contingent loans do not. Fee autonomy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296813
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010404374
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410553