Tuition Subsidies in a Model of Economic Growth

September 1, 1994

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Philip R. Gerson Tuition Subsidies in a Model of Economic Growth, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1994) accessed November 9, 2024

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Summary

This paper examines a two-sector aggregative growth model with human capital and educated unemployment. In the model, a tuition subsidy may lead to a long-run decline in the educated fraction of the population, because it may decrease the long-run per capita stock of physical capital in the economy, tending to reduce the output of the education sector and the incentives for workers to enroll in school. Thus, cuts in education subsidies undertaken by countries in Africa for adjustment reasons may actually lead to long-run increases in the educational attainment of their populations.

Subject: Consumption, Education, Financial institutions, Labor, National accounts, Population and demographics, Stocks

Keywords: Africa, Capital good, Consumption, Consumption good, Educated labor, Input-output ratio, Output of the education sector, Physical capital, Price of education, Stocks, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

24
Volume:

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Series:

Working Paper No. 1994/100
Stock No:

WPIEA1001994
ISBN:

9781451852332
ISSN:

1018-5941

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