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Student and Worker Mobility under University and Government Competition
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - CESifo - 2011
overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a free-rider effect for governments, who are not willing to subsidize … the education of agents who will work abroad. At equilibrium, the free-rider effect always dominates the competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914274
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The Importance of Financial Resources for Student Loan Repayment
Lochner, Lance; Stinebrickner, Todd; Suleymanoglu, Utku - CESifo - 2013
Government student loan programs must balance the need to enforce repayment among borrowers who can afford to make their payments with some form of forgiveness or repayment assistance for those who cannot. Using unique survey and administrative data from the Canada Student Loan Program, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010723529
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The Effects of Tuition Fees on Transition from High School to University in Germany
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Wigger, Berthold U. - CESifo - 2013
This paper studies whether the introduction of tuition fees at public universities in some German states had a negative effect on enrollment, i.e., on the transition of high school graduates to public universities in Germany. In contrast to recent studies, we do not find a significant effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010659182
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Government Ideology and Tuition Fee Policy: Evidence from the German States
Kauder, Björn; Potrafke, Niklas - CESifo - 2013
. This pattern shows clear political alternatives in education policy across the German states: the political left classifies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640656
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Student and Graduate Migration and its Effect on the Financing of Higher Education
Haussen, Tina; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2014
education systems that are partly tax-funded, a country’s labor force might not be willing to subsidize the education of foreign … mobility affects the governmental decision about the financial regime of higher education based on aggregated data of 22 OECD … financing share of higher education funding depends on a country’s tax revenue, its GDP and the share of students enrolled in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948890
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Enrolment into Higher Education and Changes in Repayment Obligations of Student Aid – Microeconometric Evidence for Germany.
Baumgartner, Hans J.; Steiner, Viktor - EconWPA - 2004
education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported … enrolment rates. Our findings may have important implications for the current debate on the reform of financing higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134616
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The Private and Fiscal Returns to Schooling and the Effect of Public Policies on Private Incentives to Invest in Education: A General Framework and Some Results for the EU
Fuente, Angel De la; Jimeno, Juan F. - CESifo - 2005
schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 … additional year of schooling for an individual of average attainment, taking into account the effects of education on wages and … education, and measures of the fiscal returns to schooling that capture the long-term effects of a marginal increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005405757
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Inequality, Opting-out and Public Education Funding
Arcalean, Calin; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - CESifo - 2014
We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of … distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in opposite directions in poor and rich economies. A mean preserving spread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011097938
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Natural Resource Abundance and Human Capital Accumulation
Stijns, Jean-Philippe C. - EconWPA - 2001
not enough to overturn my conclusions. Instrumentation reveals that reverse causality running from education to natural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556069
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On the Design of Education Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and non Education Outcomes: The Case of Teenage Pregnancy
Cortés, Darwin; Gallego, Juan; Maldonado, Darío - CESifo - 2011
We investigate the effect of education Conditional Cash Transfer programs (CCTs) on teenage pregnancy. Our main concern … education CCT that conditions renewal on school performance reduces teenage pregnancy; the program can increase teenage … teenage pregnancy of two education CCTs implemented in Bogotá (Subsidio Educativo, SE, and Familias en Acción, FA); both …
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