Arbeitspapier

Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard

Student loans, even income-contingent ones, are not optimal. Potential university students with the appropriate characteristics should be offered a scholarship, dependent on both need and merit. The award of the scholarship should be conditional on the choice of university degree, but students with a natural aptitude for studies that do not hold the prospect of a well paid job should not be pushed towards potentially more lucrative ones. The scheme should be financed by a graduate tax that re-distributes from the better paid to the academically more successful.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 973

Classification
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Education: Government Policy
Subject
scholarships
student loans
graduate tax
principal-agent
moral hazard

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Cigno, Alessandro
Luporini, Annalisa
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2003

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Cigno, Alessandro
  • Luporini, Annalisa
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2003

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