The Distributional Impact of Subsidies to Higher Education - Empirical Evidence from Germany
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چکیده
The following paper presents empirical evidence concerning the distributional impact of public higher education in the cross section view for West Germany in 1997. In contrast to a widespread hypothesis in economics, my findings do not show evidence for a regressive impact. The use of a net-transfer calculation provides a clearly progressive distributional effect of the benefits from subsidization at least in the cross section perspective. The decisive factors are the general social stratification within and among the adjusted income deciles and the incidence of the granted benefits. Complementary to the existing large literature on this issue, I propose the BCa-bootstrap procedure in order to perform statistical inference.
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