Income Contingency and the Electorates Support for Tuition

P Lergetporer and Ludger Woessmann
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P Lergetporer: Technical University of Munich and ifo Institute, CESifo

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Abstract: We show that the electorate’s preferences for using tuition to finance higher education strongly depend on the design of the payment scheme. In representative surveys of the German electorate (N>18,000), experimentally replacing regular upfront by deferred income-contingent payments increases public support for tuition by 18 percentage points. The treatment turns a plurality opposed to tuition into a strong majority of 62 percent in favor. Additional experiments reveal that the treatment effect similarly shows when framed as loan repayments, when answers carry political consequences, and in a survey of adolescents. Reduced fairness concerns and improved student situations act as strong mediators.

Keywords: tuition; higher education finance; income-contingent loans; voting JEL Classification: H52; I22; D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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Working Paper: Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition (2022)
Working Paper: Income Contingency and the Electorate's Support for Tuition (2022)
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