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Measurements of inequalities in access to higher education: Case of the Russian Federation
Osipian, Ararat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
changes in inequality in access to higher education in Russia. While intuition points toward a positive effect of introduction … index (DI) to measure income and education inequalities. The DI, the weighted DI, and the share weighted DI allow capturing … changes in inequalities in income distribution, concentration of wealth, or access to higher education more precisely than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836912
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Syndrome of Reforms' Arrhythmia in the Higher Education
Balatsky, Ye. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 24 (2014) 4, pp. 111-140
The author discusses the process of reforms in the Russian higher education. It is shown that the first phase of reforms has been fraught with omissions of regulator and inflation of educational bubble, which gave rise to the budget crisis in the industry, and demanded radical interventions. At...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118407
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Education Impact Study : The Global Recession and the Capacity of Colleges and Universities to Serve Vulnerable Populations in Asia
Postiglione, Gerard - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper reviews the capacity of colleges and universities to serve poor and vulnerable populations during past and present economic shocks. The main argument is that the environment of the global recessionan Asia far more economically integrated than during past economic shocks, with more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363586
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Testing means-tested aid
Murphy, Richard; Wyness, Gill - 2016
Inequalities do not end once students enter higher education. Yet, the majority of papers on the effectiveness of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011541300
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Diversification of university income : Polish practice and international solutions
Rozmus, Andrzej; Cyran, Karolina - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 8 (2012) 4, pp. 64-75
In the face of global economic problems European (and not only European) universities are forced to diversify their income. The constant and stable stream of governmental funds for education is beginning to dry up.For the majority of Polish universities the main and noticeably dominant source of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010187994
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show...
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University dropout problems and solutions
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2021
Frequent non-completion in optional education can be efficient if dropouts optimally exercise an option rationally foreseen by previous enrollment choices. This paper shows that in educational opportunities and groups of students where enrollment resolves more pronounced individual uncertainty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428968
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Tuition fees and educational attainment
Bietenbeck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - 2020
Following a landmark ruling by the Constitutional Court in 2005, more than half of Germany's universities started charging tuition fees, which also applied to incumbent students. We exploit this unusual lack of grandfathering together with register data covering the universe of students to show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293412
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014519843
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Keeping it in the family : student to degree match
Murphy, Richard; Silva, Pedro Luis - 2024
This paper examines systematic inequalities in the match between students and the university degree they apply to, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517315