TY - JOUR A1 - Borck, Rainald A1 - Übelmesser, Silke A1 - Wimbersky, Martin T1 - The Political Economics of Higher-Education Finance for Mobile Individuals JF - FinanzArchiv N2 - We study voting over higher-education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Nonstudents are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous probability. The voters of the two regions decide on whether to subsidize higher-education costs or to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibrium, in both regions a majority votes for subsidies when the return probability is sufficiently small. When that probability is large, both regions opt for full tuition finance. KW - voting KW - higher education KW - financing scheme KW - mobility Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1628/001522115X14206439673215 SN - 0015-2218 SN - 1614-0974 VL - 71 IS - 1 SP - 82 EP - 105 PB - Mohr Siebeck CY - Tübingen ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Borck, Rainald A1 - Wimbersky, Martin T1 - Political economics of higher education finance JF - Oxford economic papers Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gps042 SN - 0030-7653 SN - 1464-3812 VL - 66 IS - 1 SP - 115 EP - 139 PB - Oxford Univ. Press CY - Oxford ER -