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...

The paper develops a public education scheme that takes aspects of uncertainty in private educational investments explicitly into account. The social merits of public education schemes are related to the lack of markets in which students can insure against educational risks. A case is made for...

The continuous transformation the economy faces, requires the existence of an educated population, able to create and disseminate knowledge. Moreover, the governments dealing with a rapidly increasing number of students, in the conditions of limited resou

The paper aims at investigating the two main characteristics of a modern system of compulsory education with a focus on Romania. It assumes that the equity of the education sector and the efficiency of resource use are strongly correlated, both supporting

The impact that education, particularly higher education, has on individuals - with direct influence on their standard of living, but also on society as a whole - on the community’s economic development, requires concern towards the necessary resources fo

The paper estimates the relationship between public expenditure on secondary education and its quality. The investigation is based on regression analysis of cross-nationally comparable funding data and student performance metrics — PISA and TIMSS. The authors conclude that the growth of...

En los últimos tiempos se ha renovado con una cierta intensidad el debate en el ámbito de la Educación Superior en torno a temas como la Gobernanza, Financiación y Productividad Científica de las universidades. Lo anterior incrementa la posible oportunidad del presente trabajo dado que su...

El presente trabajo aborda el análisis de la estructura de la oferta de becas y ayudas al estudio por parte de las Comunidades Autónomas, así como los cambios que se ha producido entre los cursos 2000-2001 (el año 2000 es el primero en que todas las Comunidades Autónomas cuentan con...

Bildungsinvestitionen sind für den Einzelnen mit einem höheren Erwerbseinkommen und einem geringeren Arbeitslosigkeitsrisiko im Lebenszyklus verbunden. Eine Analyse auf Basis von Erwerbsbiografien des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP) zeigt, dass die private Bildungsrendite, also der...

Draft-lottery estimates of the causal effects of Vietnam-era military service using 2000 census data show marked schooling gains for veterans. We argue that these gains can be attributed to Vietnam veterans' use of the GI Bill rather than draft avoidance behavior. At the same time, draft lottery...