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Subsidizing enjoyable education

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dc.creator Dur, Robert A. J.
dc.creator Glazer, Amihai
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:02:26Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:02:26Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19024
dc.identifier ppn:503679909
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19024
dc.description We explain why means-tested college tuition and means-tested government grants to college students can be efficient. The critical idea is that attending college is both an investment good and a consumption good. If education has a consumption benefit and tuition is uniform, the marginal rich student is less smart than some poor people who choose not to attend college, thus reducing the social returns to education and increasing the college?s cost of education. We find that competition among profit-maximizing colleges results in means-tested tuition. In addition, to maximize the social returns to education government should means-test grants. We thus provide a rationale for means-tested tuition and grants which relies neither on capital market imperfections nor on redistributive objectives.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1560
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject I2
dc.subject H52
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject tuition policy
dc.subject education subsidies
dc.subject self-selection
dc.subject Bildungsfinanzierung
dc.subject Bildungsinvestition
dc.subject Bildungsökonomik
dc.title Subsidizing enjoyable education
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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