Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?

Autor/in	Johnson, William R.
Titel	Are Public Subsidies to Higher Education Regressive?
Quelle	In: Education Finance and Policy, 1 (2006) 3, S.288-315 (28 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1557-3060
DOI	10.1162/edfp.2006.1.3.288
Schlagwörter	Higher Education; Family Income; Taxes; Financial Support; Educational Finance; Resource Allocation; Educational Equity (Finance); Equal Education; Financial Policy; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Familieneinkommen; Abgabe; Finanzielle Förderung; Bildungsfonds; Ressourcenallokation; Fiscal policy; Finanzpolitik; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Kalifornien
Abstract	This article estimates the dollar amount of public higher education subsidies received by U.S. youth and examines the distribution of subsidies and the taxes that finance them across parental and student income levels. Although youths from high-income families obtain more benefit from higher education subsidies, high-income households pay sufficiently more in taxes that the net effect of the spending and associated taxation is distributionally neutral or mildly progressive. These results are robust to alternative assumptions and are consistent with Hansen and Weisbrod's earlier celebrated findings for California, although not with the conclusions often drawn from those findings. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10