The arguments for refinancing the European Union’s (EU) higher education via highertuition fees largely rest on preserving the profitability of the educational investmentand offering deferred and income-contingent payments. Using income survey datasetson Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom...

This paper explores the impact of university finance reforms on teachingquality. It is shown that the graduate tax can achieve efficiency with tuitionfees administered by the government, while student grants, pure and incomecontingent loans are bound to fail. All options are inefficient when...

An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...

We apply theories of capital market failure to ana1yzeoptima1 financing of risky higher education. In the market solution,students can only finance their education through debt. There isunderinvestment in human capita1, because some students with socia1lyprofitable investments in human capita1...

In Deutschland erfolgt die finanzielle Förderung bedürftiger Studierender durch das Bundesausbildungsförderungsgesetz (BAföG) mit dem Ziel, den Zugang zu qualifizierenden Ausbildungsstätten für alle - unabhängig von der wirtschaftlichen Situation der Familie - zu ermöglichen. Im Dezember...

We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...

We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...

We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed taxbenefit microsimulation...

This study uses survey data to investigate attitudes among Swiss voters to different models offering more freedom of choice in the educational system. The findings indicate clear opposition to the use of taxpayer money to fund private schools, while free choice between public schools seems to...

Durch die gebührenfreie Hochschulausbildung in Deutschland entstehen der öffentlichen Hand mit jedem Studierenden Ausgaben. In diesem Artikel wird untersucht, wie lange ein ausländischer Absolvent nach Abschluss des Studiums in Deutschland erwerbstätig bleiben müsste, bis die gezahlten...