Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees
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Student Loan Reforms for German Higher Education: Financing Tuition Fees
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
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