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A comparative analysis of education costs and outcomes: The United States vs. other OECD countries
Wolff, Edward N.; Baumol, William J.; Saini, Anne Noyes - In: Economics of Education Review 39 (2014) C, pp. 1-21
In this paper we confirm the universality of steadily rising education expenditures among OECD nations, as predicted by … future. However, we find that while the level of education costs in America is significantly higher than that of all other … OECD countries, education spending per student in the United States is increasing about as quickly as it is in many other …
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Tax benefits for graduate education: Incentives for whom?
Bednar, Steven; Gicheva, Dora - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 181-197
government-provided tuition subsidies, but far less attention has been devoted to the elasticity of demand for graduate education …. This paper examines how the tax code and government education policies affect graduate enrollment and persistence rates … along with the ways in which students fund their graduate education. Our empirical methodology is based on exogenous …
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Repayment burdens of student loans for Vietnamese higher education
Chapman, Bruce; Liu, Amy Y.C. - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 298-308
Expansion of high education in Vietnam will be undermined without an effective student, loans policy to assist with …
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Do in-state tuition benefits affect the enrollment of non-citizens? Evidence from universities in Texas
Dickson, Lisa; Pender, Matea - In: Economics of Education Review 37 (2013) C, pp. 126-137
In 2001, the Texas state legislature passed House Bill 1403. With the passage of the law, Texas became the first state to offer in-state tuition rates at public universities for non-citizens (including illegal immigrants) who attended high school in the state for three years. As a result of the...
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Who benefits from student aid? The economic incidence of tax-based federal student aid
Turner, Nicholas - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 4, pp. 463-481
Federal benefit programs, including federal student aid, are designed to aid targeted populations. Behavioral responses to these programs may alter the incidence of their benefits, a possibility that receives less attention in the literature compared to tax incidence. I demonstrate the...
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The effects of tuition reforms on school enrollment in rural China
Chyi, Hau; Zhou, Bo - In: Economics of Education Review 38 (2014) C, pp. 104-123
We estimate the effects of three sequential reforms undertaken between 2000 and 2006 on school enrollment for poor, rural families in China. Using difference-in-difference approaches and sample children from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 2000, 2004, and 2006 waves, we find that tuition...
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Do tuition fees affect enrollment behavior? Evidence from a ‘natural experiment’ in Germany
Hübner, Malte - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 6, pp. 949-960
This paper uses the introduction of tuition fees in seven of the sixteen German states in 2007 as a natural experiment to identify the effects of tuition prices on enrollment probabilities. Based on information on enrollment decisions of the entire population of high-school graduates between...
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Valuing the benefits of the education provided by public universities: A case study of Minnesota
Damon, Amy; Glewwe, Paul - In: Economics of Education Review 30 (2011) 6, pp. 1242-1261
government subsidies to higher education. In 2005, the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities …
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Money for nothing: Estimating the impact of student aid on participation in higher education
Dearden, Lorraine; Fitzsimons, Emla; Wyness, Gill - In: Economics of Education Review 43 (2014) C, pp. 66-78
Understanding how higher education (HE) finance policy can affect HE decisions is important for understanding how …
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The impact of a universal class-size reduction policy: Evidence from Florida's statewide mandate
Chingos, Matthew M. - In: Economics of Education Review 31 (2012) 5, pp. 543-562
Class-size reduction (CSR) mandates presuppose that resources provided to reduce class size will have a larger impact on student outcomes than resources that districts can spend as they see fit. I estimate the impact of Florida's statewide CSR policy by comparing the deviations from prior...
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