Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26440 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2395
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper uses an overlapping generations framework to analyze the implications of different financing regimes in the education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received a noisy information signal about their abilities. The incentives of the individuals to invest in education are determined by the financing regime under which the economy operates. The paper analyzes and compares three financing regimes. Under each regime, the payback obligation of an educational loan is contingent, to some extent, on an individual's future income.
Subjects: 
Higher education
funding regimes
human capital
welfare
JEL: 
D31
D91
H31
I22
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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