An adult life cycle perspective on public subsidies to higher education in three countries

Mary Jean Bowman, Benoît Millot and Ernesto Schielfelbein
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Benoît Millot: IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education - UB - Université de Bourgogne, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Empirical analyses of the incidence of public subsidies for higher education are commonly seriously misleading because of an inappropriate age composition of the adult reference groups and a disregard of changes in successive adult cohors. Moreover, the magnitude and direction of distortions in selectivity estimates and their interpretation depend upon whether the selection criteria refer to parental income, education, or occupation, each of which is both socially and economically important. These issues are discussed here analytically and illustrated empirically with data from Chile, France and Malaysia

Keywords: Chili; Comparaison internationale; Financement de l'enseignement supérieur; France; Malaisie; Politique économique; Politique éducative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986-04
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Published in Economics of Education Review, 1986, 5 (2), pp.135-145

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