Redistribution and subsidies for higher education

  1. Beviá Baeza, Carmen
  2. Iturbe-Ormaetxe Cortajarena, Iñigo
Revista:
Working papers = Documentos de trabajo: Serie AD

Año de publicación: 2000

Número: 15

Tipo: Documento de Trabajo

Resumen

The financing of higher education through public spending imposes a transfer of resources from taxpayers to the university students and their parents. We provide an explanation for this phenomenon. Those who attend higher education will earn more income in the future and will pay more taxes. People whose children do not attend higher education, however should agree to help pay the cost of such education, providing that the taxes are sufficiently high to ensure that there will be an adequate redistribution in favor of their own children at some time in the future.