The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition
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- Lergetporer, Philipp & Woessmann, Ludger, 2019. "The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition," IZA Discussion Papers 12175, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Philipp Lergetporer & Ludger Woessmann, 2019. "The political economy of higher education finance: how information and design affect public preferences for tuition," CESifo Working Paper Series 7536, CESifo.
- Lergetporer, Philipp & Woessmann, Ludger, 2019. "The Political Economy of Higher Education Finance: How Information and Design Affect Public Preferences for Tuition," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 145, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
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Keywords
tuition; higher education; political economy; survey experiments; information; earnings premium; income-contingent loans; voting JEL Classification: I22; H52; D72; D83;JEL classification:
- I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid
- H52 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Government Expenditures and Education
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2019-03-18 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-EDU-2019-03-18 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2019-03-18 (Experimental Economics)
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