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Universities as Stakeholders in Their Students' Careers : On the Benefits of Graduate Taxes to Finance Higher Education

McKenzie, Tom; Sliwka, Dirk - 2010

revenues are distributed evenly among universities there is free riding. To solve this problem each university should be … encourage more people to attend university than would the equivalent upfront tuition fee …

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Bauer, Thomas K. - 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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The Economics of University Dropouts and Delayed Graduation : A Survey

Aina, Carmen - 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 …

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The Expansion of Higher Education and Time-Consistent Taxation

Poutvaara, Panu - 2007

This paper analyzes educational choices and political support for subsidies to higher education in the presence of a time-consistency problem in income redistribution. There may be political support for so generous subsidization that it motivates the median voter to obtain higher education. As a...

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Intergenerational Conflict, Partisan Politics, and Public Higher Education Spending : Evidence from the German States

Steiner, Viktor - 2006

We analyze potential effects of demographic change and political constellations on higher education spending. In our panel analysis of west German states (Laender) for the period 1985 to 2002 we find empirical evidence for the hypothesis of a negative relationship between demographic aging and...

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Qualifying Religion : The Role of Plural Identities for Educational Production

Boppart, Timo; Falkinger, Josef; Grossmann, Volker; … - 2021

This paper examines the role of religious denomination for human capital formation. We employ a unique data set which covers, inter alia, information on numerous measures of school inputs in 169 Swiss districts for the years 1871/72, 1881/82 and 1894/95, marks from pedagogical examinations of...

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Propelled : The Effects of Grants on Graduation, Earnings, and Welfare

Denning, Jeffrey - 2018

We estimate effects of the Pell Grant - the largest U.S. federal grant for college students - using administrative data from Texas public colleges and a discontinuity in grant generosity for low-income students. Within four-year institutions, eligibility for additional grant aid significantly...

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School Accountability : Can We Reward Schools and Avoid Pupil Selection?

Ooghe, Erwin - 2013

School accountability schemes require measures of school performance, and these measures are in practice often based on pupil test scores. It is well-known that insufficiently correcting these test scores for pupil characteristics may provide incentives for inefficient pupil selection. We show...

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Immigration, Naturalization, and the Future of Public Education

Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2014

This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...

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Earnings Information and Public Preferences for University Tuition : Evidence from Representative Experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

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 …

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