Arbeitspapier
Higher education funding in Germany: A distributional lifetime perspective
This paper analyzes higher education funding in Germany from a distributional perspective. For this, I first compare the quantitative importance of different funding instruments, from free tuition to subsidized health insurance for students. I show that free tuition is, by far, the most important instrument. Then, I take a lifetime perspective and assess how individuals of different expected lifetime incomes benefit from higher education funding. I distinguish between different fields of study as there are large differences in both the expected lifetime earnings of graduating from a specific field and the social cost of tuition associated with each field. Finally, I focus exclusively on the instrument of subsidized tuition and simulate the introduction of different tuition fee schemes with income-contingent loans. While the distributional effects would be sizable in absolute terms, I estimate that they would cause few individuals to change their educational decisions.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper ; No. 2021/1
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Forecasting Models; Simulation Methods
Educational Finance; Financial Aid
Higher Education; Research Institutions
- Thema
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Higher education
Education finance
Dynamic microsimulation
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hügle, Dominik
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business & Economics
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Berlin
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.17169/refubium-28932
- Handle
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-refubium-29186-4
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hügle, Dominik
- Freie Universität Berlin, School of Business & Economics
Entstanden
- 2020
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