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The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans

In: Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics

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  • Mathias G. Sinning

    (Australian National University, RWI and IZA)

Abstract

The need for government intervention in higher education may be justified by an underinvestment in higher education due to a capital market failure (Friedman, 1962; Chapman, 2006). Specifically, higher education is costly but banks are unwilling to offer loans to students in the absence of a guarantor because individual private returns to education are uncertain. From an efficiency perspective, there would be efficiency losses without government intervention because talented but financially disadvantaged prospective students would be excluded. From an equity perspective, there would be distributional inequities because people would not have equal access to educational opportunities.

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  • Mathias G. Sinning, 2016. "The Financial Capacity of German University Graduates to Repay Student Loans," International Economic Association Series, in: Joseph E. Stiglitz & Martin Guzman (ed.), Contemporary Issues in Microeconomics, chapter 11, pages 184-193, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-137-52971-8_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137529718_12
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