Tuition Fees, as User Prices, and Private Incentives

George Economides, Apostolis Philippopoulos and Stelios Sakkas

No 5991, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing tuition fees for public education services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in capital holdings. We show that the introduction of tuition fees (a) improves individual incentives to work and/or save and (b) can be both efficient and equitable. The focus is on the role of tuition fees as an extra price and how this affects private incentives.

Keywords: user prices; tax mix; efficiency; equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 H20 H40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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