Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22749 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Dresden Discussion Paper Series in Economics No. 08/07
Publisher: 
Technische Universität Dresden, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Dresden
Abstract: 
This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that tuition fees fully crowd public funds under centralization and quality of university education does not improve. However, with decentralized decisions total higher education spending increases in the tuition level. Therefore, decentralization can lead to a higher quality of university education than centralization although the opposite holds when funding is restricted to be public.
Subjects: 
Higher Education
Federalism
Tuition Fees
JEL: 
H77
D78
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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