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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Higher education finance depends on the public’s preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of...

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Hitting where it hurts most: COVID-19 and low-income urban college students

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2020

immediate and short-term educational, financial, and personal burdens of New York city's low-income public university students … during the COVID-19 pandemic, the closing of college campuses, and the city's shutdown. Low-income students are identified by … whether they ever received the federal Pell Grant. We find that low-income college students were 8% more likely than general …

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University Funding Reform, Competition and Teaching Quality

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2007

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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Persistent inefficiency in the higher education sector: Evidence from Germany

Gralka, Sabine - 2016

Evaluations of the Higher Education Sector are receiving increased attention, due to the rising expenditures and the absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question that has only partially been answered. This paper...

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The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2019

tuition levels and increases when targeted at non-EU students. …

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The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition

Lergetporer, Philipp; Wößmann, Ludger - 2019

tuition levels and increases when targeted at non-EU students. …

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Hidden Redistribution in Higher Education

Perrotta Berlin, Maria - 2013

years in financing higher (university level) education, compared with the number of students at that level and with the …

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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...

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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...

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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition: Evidence from representative experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2022

Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which may be partly based on beliefs about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise survey experiments in representative samples of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013197534