Gibt es eine Umverteilung von den Armen zu den Reichen durch die öffentliche Hochschulfinanzierung? Tragen Akademiker die Kosten ihres Studiums?

Salvatore Barbaro ()

No 105, Departmental Discussion Papers from University of Goettingen, Department of Economics

Abstract: For more than 150 years, many economists have assumed public subsidies on higher education to have a regressive distributional effect. The German debate on this issue is kept alive by many empirical studies. Most of them confirm the thesis of a \"perverse distribution of income\" (Milton Friedman). Nevertheless, a methodological analysis of these studies unveils some problems. As the following paper tries to show, the empirical studies on the distributional effect of public higher education funding are not able to confirm the prima-facia plausibility of the thesis mentioned above. Therefore, an alternative approach to ascertaining the incidence in the long run of public subsidies on higher education seems to be necessary.

Keywords: higher education funding; tax incidence; redistribution of income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H22 H23 I22 I28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 2001-05-01
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