The Equity Implications of Public Subsisation of Higher Education: a study of the Fijian case

Chris Heaton

Education Economics, 1999, vol. 7, issue 2, 153-166

Abstract: Most studies of the returns to higher education ignore the effects of taxation on the distribution of the costs and benifits of education. In an analysis of hiogher education in Fiji, this study incorporates the tax sysyem in a model of the returns to education and finds that, rather than subsiding higher education, the public gernerate a significant finincial benifits rrom their funding of higher education, in addition to the profit made by the individual student.

Date: 1999
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DOI: 10.1080/09645299900000013

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