In recent decades, many universities have been moving in the direction of a more hierarchical and centralised structure, with top-down planning and reduced local autonomy for departments. Yet the management literature over this period has stressed the numerous benefits of flatter organisational structures, decentralisation and local autonomy for sections or departments. What might explain this ...

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies that the initial subsidy per student becomes too expensive to be politically sustainable. Despite a vo...

A Simulation of an Income Contingent Tuition Scheme in a Transition Economy The paper takes advantage of exceptionally rich longitudinal data on the universe of labor force participants in Slovenia and simulates the working of an income contingent loan scheme to partly recover tuition costs. The simulations show that under the base variant (where the target cost recovery rate is 20 percent and ...

This paper tests the extent to which the accumulation of basic cognitive skills, as measured by a post-schooling math test, matter for young dropouts entering today’s labor market. Based on a sample of dropouts who were age 16-18 when administered a math test in the late 1990s, estimates indicate that a standard deviation increase in the test score is associated with 6.5 percent higher average ...

An important element in considering school finance policies is that households are not passive. Instead they respond to policies with a combination of modified residential choice and political choice of tax levels. The highly stylized decision models of most existing analyses, however, lead to concerns about the policy evaluations. In our general equilibrium model of residential location and co...

Cash Transfers and Child Labour Cash transfer programs are widely used in settings where child labour is prevalent. Even if many of these programs are explicitly implemented to improve children’s welfare, in theory their impact on child labour is undetermined. This paper systematically reviews the empirical evidence on the impact of cash transfers, conditional and unconditional, on child labour...

2013-ban szeles korű centralizacios folyamat indult el a magyar kozoktatasban, amelynek soran minden, addig onkormanyzati fenntartasban levő iskola egy allami intezmenyfenntarto kozponthoz kerult. A tanulmany celja, hogy megvizsgalja ennek folyamatnak diakok tesztpontszamaira gyakorolt hatasat mind altalanos iskolai, pedig kozepiskolai szinten. Tovabbi cel ezeknek hatasoknak szinten szakkepzesi...

University students have an essential role in developing ecotourism services and supporting environmental education. The research aims to explore students' perceptions of the object tourism, group behavior travel problems tourist destinations. Surveys interviews were conducted on who a field study Coban Tengah tourism destination, Indonesia. Students Undergraduate (S1) Master’s (S2) programs in...

Several K-12 and university systems have adopted race-neutral affirmative action in place of race-based alternatives. This paper explores whether these plans are effective substitutes for racial quotas Chicago Public Schools (CPS), which now employs a race-neutral, place-based system at its selective exam high schools. The CPS plan is ineffective compared to that explicitly consider race: about...

Elite Dominance and Under-Investment in Mass Education: Disparity in the Social Development of the Indian States, 1960-92 Interand intra-state disparities in levels of literacy rates in India are striking, especially for the marginalized groups of women and low caste population. The present paper offers an explanation of this disparate development in terms of elite dominance that discriminates ...