Equity and Efficiency Considerations of Public Higher Education

• Main Author: Barbaro, Salvatore (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, 557
• Subjects: Public finance.; Economic policy.; Economics.; Public Economics.; Economic Policy.

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...

Table of 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.