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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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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2018
This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student … education. Accordingly, they decide whether to continue university studies in order to get a degree or to withdraw. This … university decisional process is discussed by clustering the determinants of university outcomes into four main categories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131241
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The transient and persistent efficiency of Italian and German universities : a stochastic frontier analysis
Agasisti, Tommaso; Gralka, Sabine - 2017
term according to the two management levels each university is confronted with. Utilizing a recent advancement in the …
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Earnings information and public preferences for university tuition : evidence from representative experiments
Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
about the university earnings premium. To test whether public support for tuition depends on earnings information, we devise … opposing tuition. Providing information on the university earnings premium raises support for tuition by 7 percentage points …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533895
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The economics of university dropouts and delayed graduation : a survey
Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2018
This survey organizes and discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the determinants of university student … education. Accordingly, they decide whether to continue university studies in order to get a degree or to withdraw. This … university decisional process is discussed by clustering the determinants of university outcomes into four main categories …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820061
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How tuition fees affected student enrollment at higher education institutions : the aftermath of a German quasi-experiment
Minor, Ralf - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-19
This study examines the impact of the charging of tuition fees between 2006 and 2014 in several German federal states on the number of first-year student enrollments. Since Germany is known for a tuition-free education policy at public institutions, the fundamental question arises of whether,...
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Entrepreneurship in Higher Education - The Impact of Competition-Based Policy Programs Exemplified by the German Excellence Initiative
Lehmann, Erik E. - 2018
“winners” effect. We measure entrepreneurial activity by the patenting activity and industry collaboration of a university. Our … that the Initiative created an advantage for whole Germany while being an Excellence University does not have an impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913371
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Performance-Related Funding of Universities – Does More Competition Lead to Grade Inflation?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Grave, Barbara S. - 2011
German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...
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Higher Education : Does Public Expenditure Increase Enrollment?
Bergh, Andreas; Fink, Guenther - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014202457
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Comparing Efficiency in a Cross-Country Perspective : The Case of Italian and Spanish State Universities
Agasisti, Tommaso; Pérez-Esparrells, Carmen - 2010
The growing internationalization of European Higher Education requires more emphasis on cross-country comparisons. In this paper, an efficiency analysis of Italian and Spanish universities is conducted; as well as from a comparative perspective. The efficiency scores are obtained using Data...
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