Equity and Efficiency Considerations of Public Higher Education

Download or read book Equity and Efficiency Considerations of Public Higher Education written by Salvatore Barbaro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-16 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher education have an unwanted distributional impact. This volume presents new empirical evidence for the cross-sectional point of view and provides an analytical framework for the longitudinal perspective. The present volume also analyzes the equity and efficiency effects of widely-discussed funding reforms and proposes a voluntary graduate tax.