Summary This paper examines the distributional effects of public higher education financing in a lifetime perspective. The benefits that university graduates obtain in terms of their tertiary education are compared to the graduates’ education-related (tax) burden. To calculate the...

This paper studies the effect of information about a charity’s size on individuals’ donations to that charity. We conducted a framed field experiment with a non-student sample, in which subjects had the opportunity to donate to various charitable causes. The results show that if subjects are...

This paper examines the distributional effects of public higher education financing in a lifetime perspective. The benefits that university graduates obtain in terms of their tertiary education are compared to the graduates’ education-related (tax) burden. To calculate the education-related...

Abstract: Die Autoren plädieren für eine Reform der Bildungsfinanzierung. Diese sollte nach ökonomischen Kriterien gestaltet werden, um über den Lebenszyklus optimierte Bildungsinvestitionen zu erreichen. Um dieses Ziel zu unterstützen, sollten einerseits die öffentlichen Investitionen in...