Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees

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This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that tuition fees fully crowd public funds under centralization and quality of university education does not improve. However, with decentralized decisions total higher education spending increases in the tuition level. Therefore, decentralization can lead to a higher quality of university education than centralization although the opposite holds when funding is restricted to be public.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics ; No. 08/07

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Intergovernmental Relations; Federalism; Secession ; Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation ; Educational Finance; Financial Aid
• Subject: Higher Education ; Federalism ; Tuition Fees ; Studienfinanzierung ; Hochschulfinanzierung ; Föderalismus ; Zentralstaat ; Bildungsniveau ; Theorie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kemnitz, Alexander
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften
• (where): Dresden
• (when): 2007

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/22749
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