Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees

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Bruce Chapman

Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS) - Economics Program; Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy

Mathias Sinning

Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy

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Date Written: February 2011

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 nontrivial 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 that 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.

Keywords: Educational finance, student financial aid, state and federal aid, government

JEL Classification: H52, I22, I28

Suggested Citation

Chapman, Bruce James and Sinning, Mathias, Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees (February 2011). Ruhr Economic Paper No. 244, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1776972 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1776972

Bruce James Chapman (Contact Author)

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Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy

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Mathias Sinning

Australian National University (ANU) - Crawford School of Public Policy ( email )

ANU College of Asia and the Pacific
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Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200
Australia

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