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Externalities and Optimal Subsidization of Higher Education

Winter, Stefan - 2013

Higher education is subsidized worldwide, although with pronounced differences in levels of subsidization. While public funds account for about 90% of universities' budgets in Scandinavian countries, the share of public funds in Great Britain and the US is less that 30%. Subsidization is...

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Higher Education Trends in Eritrea

Rena, Ravinder - 2015

Higher education has been viewed as a potential instrument of national economic development. Human resource development in Eritrea is important for making the nation self-reliant thus the efforts are exerted to achieve this objective. However, Eritrea has been facing so many challenges in its...

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The Private Internal Rates of Return to Tertiary Education : New Estimates for 21 OECD Countries

Boarini, Romina - 2007

This study provides estimates of the private Internal Rates of Return (IRR) to tertiary education for women and men in 21 OECD countries, for the years between 1991 and 2005. IRR are computed by estimating labour market premia on cross-country comparable individual-level data. Labour market...

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Risk-sharing in higher education : a policy proposal

Webber, Douglas A. - 2018

As concerns over growing levels of student loan debt continue to mount for both students and taxpayers, many have called for an improved accountability system in the U.S. higher education system. In this policy brief, I discuss the many flaws in our current system, and outline how a system known...

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Student aid and the distribution of educational attainment

Jones, Maggie - 2016

I examine the effect of student aid on the distribution of educational attainment in the context of a post-secondary funding program for Indigenous students in Canada. I show that student aid programs targeted at marginalized groups can increase average educational attainment; however, these...

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Vouchers, school choice and the access to higher education

Contreras Guajardo, Dante - 2002

For over twenty years, a voucher system has been used in Chile to promote competition in the educational system between … at community level) implies substantially larger impacts of the voucher system. The effect of parents' education on … results also show that family school choice is gender biased, females are sent more often to voucher schools while males are …

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Equal opportunity through higher education : theory and evidence on privilege and ability

Arbel, Yuval; Bar-El, Ronen; Tobol, Yossi - 2017

We model a higher education system that admits students according to their admission signal (e.g., matriculation GPA, SAT), which is, in turn, affected by their cognitive ability and socioeconomic background. We show that subsidizing education loans increases neither human capital stock nor...

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The returns to college choice : loans, scholarships and labor outcomes

Montoya, Ana Maria; Noton Norambuena, Carlos; Solis, Alex - 2018

To estimate causal effects of college choice, we exploit eligibility rules for student loans in a regression discontinuity design. Loan programs induce students to pursue college degrees that are more expensive and prolonged relative to technical education. Although higher education is...

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Student aid, academic achievement and labor market behavior

Joensen, Juanna Schrøter; Mattana, Elena - 2017

exploit exogenous variation from the 2001 Swedish Study Aid reform to estimate the model. The reform reduced the cost of … working while enrolled, resulting in a 14 percentage points increase in students working during the academic year. The reform …

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Temporäre Erhebung allgemeiner Studiengebühren : mehr Studierende schlossen ihr Studium ab, aber weniger schrieben sich neu ein

Bietenberck, Jan; Marcus, Jan; Weinhardt, Felix - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 88 (2021) 15, pp. 252-259

Die Universitäten in Deutschland sind unterfinanziert. Ob die Studierenden jedoch selber zur Finanzierung ihrer Hochschul bildung beitragen sollen, ist nach wie vor stark umstritten. Dieser Bericht weist anhand amtlicher Daten zu allen Studie renden in Deutschland nach, dass die Einführung...

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