Higher education funding: The value of choice

Limor Hatsor () and Ronen Bar-El

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Abstract: An alternative to the dependence on traditional student loans may offer a viable relief from the tremendous burden that those loans usually incur. This article establishes that it is desirable for governmental intervention to grant students 'more choice' in their funding decisions by allowing them to have portfolios, mixtures of different types of loans. To emphasize this point, a model is presented of a situation where students invest in higher education while facing uncertainty about their individual earning potential. The model reveals that when students are allowed to have portfolios of loans, some of them indeed take the opportunity and diversify their loans, benefiting themselves, but also improving the loan terms of other students. Therefore, when governments organize student loans, they should consider providing students with more choice in their funding decisions.

Keywords: Education policy; Education finance; Student loans; Human capital; Higher education (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I22 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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