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controlled fees and can make the majority of students even worse off than a central student assignment system with very poor …
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programs versus programs requiring tuition. Between 1994 and 2008 Poland has undoubtedly improved the participation of students …
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volatility in future income is transferred from risk-averse students to the risk-neutral state. However, a double moral hazard … problem arises when students’ efforts to raise lifetime income and universities’ activities to improve teaching quality are …
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preferred. Risk-pooling schemes can however be prone to adverse selection problems, particularly if students are mobile. The … paper explores the implications of allowing students to opt out of the riskpooling income-contingent loan for a pure loan …. It shows that risk-pooling income-contingent loans can be sustained even when some students opt out. …
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This paper evaluates the effects of public education expenditure on student enrollment in tertiary education. We use a cross-section of 132 countries to demonstrate that public expenditure on primary and secondary education positively affects tertiary enrollment rates, while the generosity of...
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tuition coverage to students admitted to one of 33 government-certified high-quality universities known for superior test …. To qualify, students must score in the top 10% of the standardized high school exit exam and have below-median household … partly by high-quality universities improving students' skills, as demonstrated by their performance on Colombia's college …
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years in financing higher (university level) education, compared with the number of students at that level and with the …
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disseminate knowledge. Moreover, the governments dealing with a rapidly increasing number of students, in the conditions of …
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Private universities, as opposed to publicly financed ones, are dominant in some countries and almost non-existent in others. We develop a dynamic model to demonstrate that private providers emerge as soon as they can profitably sell an elite signal to the most highly talented. As private...
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Higher education displays characteristics of both private and public goods and there is a trend worldwide to expect individuals to pay more of the costs of their higher education. In South Africa public funding of higher education decreased from 0.86% of GDP in 1986 to only 0.66% in 2006. Due to...
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