Higher education finance depends on the public's preferences for charging tuition, which
may be partly based on beliefs and awareness about the university earnings premium. To …

In this paper we study the role of parental risk aversion on children's educational choices. In
a country like Italy where parental support is the main source of funds supporting college …

We apply the theory of inequality of opportunity to the measurement of inequity in mortality.
Using a rich data set linking records of mortality and health events to survey data on …

We characterize the set of second‐best “menus” of student‐loan contracts in an economy
with risky labor‐market outcomes, adverse selection, moral hazard, and risk aversion. We …

Income Contingency and the Electorate’s Support for Tuition Page 1 DISCUSSION PAPER
SERIES IZA DP No. 14991 Philipp Lergetporer Ludger Woessmann Income Contingency …

We analyse data in which individuals from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds
have lower university participation rates than those from higher SES backgrounds. Our focus …

In this paper we combine a unique large scale field experimental data on preferences and
longitudinal household survey data from rural Uganda to estimate the impact of parental risk …

The question whether higher education should be free or whether students should pay
tuition creates strong political tensions. Politicians in countries with long traditions of tuition …

This paper analyzes simultaneous voting on the wage tax rate and investment in public
education with three overlap** generations and ability differences inside each cohort …

We study voting over higher education finance in an economy with risk averse households
who are heterogeneous in income. We compare four different systems and analyse voters' …