Higher Education Funding

Higher Education Funding in Nevada

Nevada Facts & Statistics • Nevada ranked 45th in the nation for per-capita higher education support in FY 2014. • Between 2010 and 2015, per-student higher education appropriations in Nevada decreased by 34.5 percent. In response, tuition and fees at all public higher education institutions increased between 36 and 46 percent during that span. • Recession-era budget cuts to the University of N...

Does Public Funding for Higher Education Matter?

Zhang is an assistant professor of higher education at the University of Minnesota and a faculty associate at the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI). He thanks Ronald Ehrenberg for his insightful comments on an early draft of the paper. Of course, full responsibility rests with the author. 1 Abstract This study uses panel data to examine the direct link between state funding an...

Funding, Competition and Quality in Higher Education

This paper explores the impact of university finance reforms on teaching quality. It is shown that the graduate tax can achieve efficiency with tuition fees administered by the government, while student grants, pure and income contingent loans can not. However, all options are inefficient when universities have the autonomy to set tuition fees. Then, pure loans dominate the graduate tax and are...

ACCESS TO HIGHER EDUCATION IN WALES A Report to the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales

Analysis of Two Higher Education Funding Systems under Uncertainty ∗

We present a theoretical model to analyze the effects of two higher education loan schemes on individual schooling decisions, in a world where graduate earnings are stochastic. The paper is structured in two parts. The first part is static, we assume a single lifetime shock on graduate incomes and we compare the individual expected utilities under a mortgage loan (ML) and an income contingent l...