期刊名称：Diskussionsbeiträge aus dem Volkswirtschaftlichen Seminar / Universität Göttingen
出版年度：2001
卷号：2001
出版社：Universität Göttingen
摘要：For more than 150 years, many economists have assumed public subsidies on higher education to have a regressive distributional effect. The German debate on this issue is kept alive by many empirical studies. Most of them confirm the thesis of a "perverse distribution of income" (Milton Friedman). Nevertheless, a methodological analysis of these studies unveils some problems. As the following paper tries to show, the empirical studies on the distributional effect of public higher education funding are not able to confirm the prima-facia plausibility of the thesis mentioned above. Therefore, an alternative approach to ascertaining the incidence in the long run of public subsidies on higher education seems to be necessary.
关键词：higher education funding, tax incidence, redistribution of income
