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Equity and Efficiency Considerations of Public Higher Education

By: Barbaro, Salvatore [author.].
Contributor(s): SpringerLink (Online service).
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems: 557Publisher: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.Description: XII, 128 p. online resource.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783540285151.Subject(s): Public finance | Economic policy | Economics | Public Economics | Economic PolicyDDC classification: 336 Online resources: Click here to access online
Contents:
Outline of the Book -- The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education in the Cross-Sectional Perspective -- Previous Studies -- Empirical Evidence Using GSOEP Data -- The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education in the Long Run -- Previous Related Literature -- The Creedy–François Model of Higher-Education Economics as the Basic Framework for our Analysis -- The Distributional Effect of Public Subsidization Among Graduates and Non-Graduates—The Life-Cycle Perspective -- Alternative Options for Funding -- The Role of Progressive Taxation -- Offsetting Subsidies and Progressive Taxation -- Limits of Distortion-Offsetting Subsidies -- Summary and Conclusion.
In: Springer eBooksSummary: It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher education have an unwanted distributional impact. This volume presents new empirical evidence for the cross-sectional point of view and provides an analytical framework for the longitudinal perspective. The present volume also analyzes the equity and efficiency effects of widely-discussed funding reforms and proposes a voluntary graduate tax.
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Outline of the Book -- The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education in the Cross-Sectional Perspective -- Previous Studies -- Empirical Evidence Using GSOEP Data -- The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education in the Long Run -- Previous Related Literature -- The Creedy–François Model of Higher-Education Economics as the Basic Framework for our Analysis -- The Distributional Effect of Public Subsidization Among Graduates and Non-Graduates—The Life-Cycle Perspective -- Alternative Options for Funding -- The Role of Progressive Taxation -- Offsetting Subsidies and Progressive Taxation -- Limits of Distortion-Offsetting Subsidies -- Summary and Conclusion.

It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher education have an unwanted distributional impact. This volume presents new empirical evidence for the cross-sectional point of view and provides an analytical framework for the longitudinal perspective. The present volume also analyzes the equity and efficiency effects of widely-discussed funding reforms and proposes a voluntary graduate tax.

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