The Political Economics of Higher-Education Finance for Mobile Individuals

Rainald Borck, Silke Uebelmesser and Martin Wimbersky

FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis, 2015, vol. 71, issue 1, 82-105

Abstract: We study voting over higher-education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Nonstudents are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous probability. The voters of the two regions decide on whether to subsidize higher-education costs or to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibrium, in both regions a majority votes for subsidies when the return probability is sufficiently small. When that probability is large, both regions opt for full tuition finance.

Keywords: voting; higher education; financing scheme; mobility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H42 H52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Working Paper: The Political Economics of Higher Education Finance for Mobile Individuals (2013)
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DOI: 10.1628/001522108X14206439673215

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