Arbeitspapier

Economic gains from publicly provided education in Germany

The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional perspective the overall result is the expected levelling effect. When estimating the effects of accumulated educational transfers over the life course within a regression framework, however, and controlling for selectivity of households with children as potential beneficiaries of educational transfers, we find evidence that social inequalities are increasing from an intergenerational perspective, reinforced in particular by public transfers for non-compulsory education, thus negating any social equalisation effects achieved within the com-pulsory education framework.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: DIW Discussion Papers ; No. 709

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Thema
Education
Public Transfers
Income Distribution
Economic Wellbeing
SOEP
Bildungsökonomik
Öffentliche Bildungsausgaben
Einkommensverteilung
Lebensstandard
Weiterbildung
Generationenbeziehungen
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Frick, Joachim R.
Grabka, Markus M.
Groh-Samberg, Olaf
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)
(wo)
Berlin
(wann)
2007

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Frick, Joachim R.
  • Grabka, Markus M.
  • Groh-Samberg, Olaf
  • Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW)

Entstanden

  • 2007

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