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An adult life cycle perspective on public subsidies to higher education in three countries

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  • Mary Jean Bowman
  • Benoît Millot

    (IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education - UB - Université de Bourgogne, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Ernesto Schielfelbein

Abstract

Empirical analyses of the incidence of public subsidies for higher education are commonly seriously misleading because of an inappropriate age composition of the adult reference groups and a disregard of changes in successive adult cohors. Moreover, the magnitude and direction of distortions in selectivity estimates and their interpretation depend upon whether the selection criteria refer to parental income, education, or occupation, each of which is both socially and economically important. These issues are discussed here analytically and illustrated empirically with data from Chile, France and Malaysia

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  • Mary Jean Bowman & Benoît Millot & Ernesto Schielfelbein, 1986. "An adult life cycle perspective on public subsidies to higher education in three countries," Post-Print halshs-03192834, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-03192834
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    Cited by:

    1. Clément Lemelin, 1992. "Short-Term Redistributive Effects of Public Financing of University Education in Quebec," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 18(2), pages 176-188, June.
    2. Salvatore Barbaro, 2004. "Tax Distortion, Countervailing Subsidies and Income Redistribution," Departmental Discussion Papers 121, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.

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