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Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition
We show that the electorate's preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N>18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases public support for tuition by 18 percentage points. The treatment turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the treatment effect similarly shows when framed as loan repayments, when answers carry political consequences, and in a survey of adolescents. Reduced fairness concerns and improved student situations act as strong mediators.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 9520
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
National Government Expenditures and Education
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- Subject
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tuition
higher education finance
income-contingent loans
voting
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Lergetporer, Philipp
Woessmann, Ludger
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (where)
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Munich
- (when)
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2022
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Lergetporer, Philipp
- Woessmann, Ludger
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Time of origin
- 2022
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