Equity and Efficiency Considerations of Public Higher Education

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 educati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barbaro, Salvatore (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2005.
Edición:1st ed. 2005.
Colección:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 557
Temas:
Finance, Public.
Economic policy.
Public Economics.
Economic Policy.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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