Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51880 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5532
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
It is generally agreed that the funding base for German universities is inadequate and perhaps the time has come for serious consideration of the imposition of non-trivial tuition charges. Against this background, this paper compares conventional and income contingent loans for financing tuition fees at German universities. With the use of unconditional age-income quantile regression approaches our analysis considers two critical aspects of the loan debate: the size of repayment burdens associated with normal mortgage-style loans, and the time structure of revenue to the government from a hypothetical income contingent loan scheme. It is found tuition fees at German universities could increase considerably with the use of an income contingent loan system based on current policy approaches used in Australia, England and New Zealand.
Subjects: 
educational finance
student financial aid
state and federal aid
government expenditures on education
JEL: 
H52
I22
I28
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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