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User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education

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The analysis of the optimal funding of education is complicated by the numerous and serious market failures which are likely to characterize a free market for education. Prominent amongst these are the likely external benefits of education, stressed by some new economic growth models.

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  • Simon Appleton, 1997. "User Fees, Expenditure Restructuring and Voucher Systems in Education," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-1997-134, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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    Keywords

    Economic development; Education; Finance (Education); Equality and inequality; Public expenditures;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I22 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Educational Finance; Financial Aid

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